Customer Support: 131 242

  • There are no items in your cart
We noticed you’re not on the correct regional site. Switch to our AMERICAS site for the best experience.
Dismiss alert

BS 5450:1977

Superseded

Superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

View Superseded by

Specification for sizes of hardwoods and methods of measurement

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

15-03-1999

Superseded by

BS EN 1313-2:1999

Language(s)

English

Published date

28-02-1977

$268.61
Including GST where applicable

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Specification
1. Scope
2. References
3. Definitions
4. Moisture content
5. Basic sizes of sawn hardwoods
6. Permissible deviations from basic sizes
7. Methods of measurement
8. Reduction of sawn hardwood sizes by processing
Appendix
A. Shrinkage on drying
Tables
1. Basic cross-sectional sizes of sawn hardwoods
2. Permissible deviations from basic sizes of
     thickness or width
3. Reduction from basic sawn size to finished size
     by processing of two opposed faces
Figures
1. Measurement of length for specified widths,
     square edged and random widths, square edged
2. Measurement of length for random widths, waney
     edged

Range of basic sizes of sawn hardwood at 15 per cent moisture content. Measurement of moisture content and sizes. Includes a table for reductions by manufacturing processes from the basic sawn hardwood sizes, for some end uses and products.

Committee
B/518
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
10
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

Standards Relationship
UNE-EN ISO 19085-5:2018 Identical

BS 1133-8:1991 Packaging code Wooden boxes, cases and crates
BS 6446:1997 Specification for manufacture of glued structural components of timber and wood based panels
BS 8201:1987 Code of practice for flooring of timber, timber products and wood based panel products
BS 5799:1986 Specification for safety requirements for children\'s high chairs and multi-purpose high chairs for domestic use

Access your standards online with a subscription

Features

  • Simple online access to standards, technical information and regulations.

  • Critical updates of standards and customisable alerts and notifications.

  • Multi-user online standards collection: secure, flexible and cost effective.

Need help?
Call us on 131 242, then click here to start a Screen Sharing session
so we can help right away! Learn more