scope:

This specification covers 12 ½-gage (0.099-in.) [2.5- mm] Class 3 metallic-coated steel wire suitable for use in parallel-wire fence, trellis, and similar structures that are typically nonelectrified. Two types of coatings are covered, as follows:

Type 1-Zinc-coated (galvanized), and

Type II-Zinc-5 % aluminum mischmetal (Zn-5Al- MM) alloy coated.

This specification is applicable to orders in either inch-pound units (as A 854) or acceptable SI units (as A 854M). Inch-pound units and SI units are not necessarily equivalent.

*A Summary of Changes section appears at the end of this standard.