// Custom & Machined Eye Bolts

Custom Eye Bolts, Machined to Print

One-piece eye bolts turned from solid bar, bent-eye bolts, DIN 444 style swing bolts — in the threads, eye sizes and materials no catalog stocks. Metric fine, Whitworth, 316L, titanium. Two pieces are a normal order.

M5–M36, UNC/UNF, BSW & fine pitches
304 / 316L / titanium / brass / alloy steel
To a drawing, sketch or worn sample
MOQ 1, quote 24h

Lifting or Not? The Line We Draw First

Eye bolts split into two worlds, and an honest supplier tells you which one your job belongs to before quoting:

Load-rated overhead lifting

Hoisting machinery, engines, molds — anything that swings over people. That is drop-forged, heat-treated shoulder eye bolt territory (ASME B18.15, rigged per ASME B30.26, marked WLL). Buy them from a rigging supplier. We don't machine rated lifting eyes — and if you ask us to quote one, we'll say exactly that.

Everything else — our lane

Guying and tensioning, cable terminations, tie-down points, fixtures and positioning, architectural rigging, covers and hatches, replacements for unrated originals. Here the problem is never load rating — it's that the geometry you need doesn't exist in a catalog. That's a machining job.

Eye Bolt Patterns We Machine

ONE-PIECE MACHINED from solid bar — no weld, no bend seam BENT-EYE formed from rod — open or closed (welded) eye SWING (DIN 444) pivots on a pin — clamps, levers, quick-release
PatternHow it's madeTypical use
One-piece machinedTurned and milled from solid bar — eye, shank and thread with no weld or bend seamClean geometry, stainless/titanium, exact eye ID
Bent-eye (open or closed)Formed from rod; closed eyes welded on requestCable ends, guy wires, hooks and lashing points
Swing / articulated (DIN 444 style)Machined eye pivoting on a pinClamping levers, quick-release closures, autoclave doors
Shoulder-pattern, unratedMachined shoulder seats against the facePositioning, alignment and fixture points
Lag-thread eye screwsMachined eye with wood/lag threadTimber structures, architectural
Eye studs / fully threadedThread the full shank length, eye on topAdjustable tensioning, turnbuckle ends

Every dimension floats: eye inside diameter, shank length, thread size and pitch are whatever the drawing says — including combinations that exist in no standard, like a 28 mm eye on an M12×1.25 fine thread, or a BSW thread for a hundred-year-old machine, matched from your sample the same way as any replacement bolt.

Sizes, Threads & Materials

AttributeRange
ThreadsMetric coarse & fine M5–M36, UNC/UNF ¼"–1¼", BSW/BSF, left-hand on request
Eye inside diameter6–60 mm, independent of thread size
Shank lengthTo 500 mm+, fully or partially threaded
MaterialsStainless A2-70 (304), A4-80 (316L), titanium Grade 5, brass, C45 / 42CrMo4 steel
FinishPlain, passivated, black oxide, zinc; polished for architectural work
DocumentationEN 10204 3.1 material certificate and dimensional report on request

The Jobs That Land on Our Bench

// Architectural & balustrade contractor

"316 eye bolts for cable rigging — but the shank has to be 120 mm and polished."

Catalog stainless eyes stop at standard lengths and a mill finish. We machine the exact shank, thread and eye ID in 316L, polished, with matching coupling nuts or turnbuckle ends if the run needs them.

// Maintenance, packaging line

"The swing bolts on our autoclave door are worn — metric fine thread, nobody lists it."

DIN 444 style swing bolts in fine pitch are a turning job. Send one worn original; we measure eye, pin bore and thread, and machine replacements in A4 — plus spares in the same run.

// Restoration workshop

"A 1930s machine has ⅜ BSW eye bolts with an undersized eye. Extinct."

Pre-metric threads are routine here: we gauge the Whitworth thread from your sample and machine the eye to the original drawing dimensions — one piece if that's all you need.

Matched counterparts: eye nuts, clevis ends, pins and U-bolts can be machined in the same material and finish, so a rigging or tensioning run arrives as one consistent, certified package.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Not for load-rated overhead lifting — that calls for drop-forged, WLL-marked eye bolts to ASME B18.15/B30.26 from a rigging supplier, and we'll say so if asked. Machined eye bolts are for guying, tensioning, tie-down, fixtures and architectural work where geometry, not rating, is the problem.

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Yes — machined eye, precision shank, metric coarse or fine, stainless or steel, including non-standard lengths and replacements measured from a worn sample.

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One-piece from solid bar, bent-eye open or closed, DIN 444 swing bolts, unrated shoulder-pattern, lag-thread eye screws and fully threaded eye studs — with eye ID, shank and thread all to your print.

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One piece. No tooling, no minimum — two stainless eye bolts in an odd thread is a normal order here.

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A drawing, sketch or the old eye bolt. Key dimensions: thread size and pitch, shank length, eye inside diameter, material or environment. Quote in 24 hours.

Need an Eye Bolt No Catalog Stocks?

Odd threads, exact eye sizes, 316L or titanium — machined to your print or measured from the worn original. Quote in 24 hours.

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