We offer different types of stainless steel eyebolts including stainless steel swivel eye bolts with links that will automatically adjust to the direction of the load. Stainless steel lifting eyebolts are used where there is the potential of corrosion contamination or failure caused by corrosion. Lifting safety offers a great variety of styles are offered to try to ensure that we have a fitting to suit our customer's applications.
These new generation lifting points offer advanced engineering and increased load capacities over standard eyebolts.
Although there is not a specific standard for theses, several reputable manufactures including Crosby, RUD and Yoke, who make them to their own designs. In general, the best alternative to eyebolts are the modern lifting points, swivel links and hoist rings. This often considerably recuses the quantity required and opens up their options. Therefore good practice is to remove eyebolts, plug the holes and put the eyebolts into storage until needed. As such most the countries require that they are periodically inspected or thoroughly exanimated. Traditionally eyebolts were often fitted to their load and lift in place for life, being regarded s part of the load, however modern practice is to treat detachable lifting point as lifting accessories. Alternatively a hole that is primarily intended for some other purpose, such as stud, can be utilized. Sometimes the hole they are screwed into is there specifically for the eyebolt. Eyebolts are used in a wide variety of applications to provide lifting points on loads. One of the most commonly used items of lifting gears have severe limitation in usage and a high level of accidents occurs as a result of misuse.