These aluminum meshes are plain square weave (woven over one, under one) from high quality commercial grade aluminum wire.
Aluminum Wire Mesh - Examples of Uses
Filter discs
Air vents
Wherever a lightweight screen is needed. Aluminum weighs 65% less than steel.
Electrically conductive substrates and electrodes
Aluminum Wire Mesh - Cutting
Aluminum meshes are easily cut with hand tools. The heavy meshes from 2 mesh through 10 mesh is best cut with tin snips. To cut 16 mesh and finer, you can use a common scissor.
Aluminum Wire Mesh - Choosing
In general, our website gives detailed descriptions and pictures of many aluminum meshes. For someone unfamiliar with wire mesh terminology, 2 mesh has two wires in each direction in a square inch. You could easily pass a pencil through the openings.
16 mesh is what is used in a window or porch screens to keep out common insects. 60x40 mesh is the size commonly used in kitchen faucets. An 80 mesh has an opening which will barely pass a human hair. A piece of paper is about three thousandths (.003) of an inch.
Aluminum Wire Mesh - Look and Feel
Aluminum mesh is an easily bendable material and has little springback after being bent or formed
| Mesh | Wire Diameter (mm) | Width | Length |
| 12meshx12mesh | 0.28 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 14meshx14mesh | 0.25 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 14meshx14mesh | 0.23 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 14meshx14mesh | 0.22 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 14meshx14mesh | 0.21 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx14mesh | 0.25 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx14mesh | 0.23 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx14mesh | 0.22 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx14mesh | 0.21 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx16mesh | 0.25 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx16mesh | 0.23 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx16mesh | 0.22 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 16meshx16mesh | 0.21 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx16mesh | 0.25 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx16mesh | 0.23 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx16mesh | 0.22 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx16mesh | 0.21 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx18mesh | 0.25 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx18mesh | 0.23 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
| 18meshx18mesh | 0.22 | 0.6m to 1.5m | 100' |
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