--- title: "Custom Support & Bracket Manufacturing" description: "Custom support & bracket made to your drawing or sample. MOQ from 2,000 pieces, samples in 7 days." url: https://engineeringhardware.com/custom/supports/ source: Engineering Hardware & Fasteners --- # Custom Support & Bracket Manufacturing Custom support & bracket · Made to drawing Send a drawing, a sample or a photograph. Samples follow within 7 days of the drawing being approved. Request a quotation One business day for a reply. asme-b18-6-3-12a-unc-slotted-truss-head-machine-screw Engineering Hardware manufactures custom support & bracket to a drawing, a sample or a dimensioned sketch, in sizes, materials, strength classes and finishes the standard range does not cover. They are made by milling and stamping. Minimum order 2,000–5,000 pieces; samples within 7 days of drawing approval. Support & Bracket outside the standard range — a size that is not in the table, a head that is not in the standard, a material or a finish that the catalog part does not come in. ### Standard parts in this family - [Adjustable Clevis Pipe Hangers](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/adjustable-clevis-pipe-hangers/) - [Adjustable Swivel Ring Pipe Hangers](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/adjustable-swivel-ring-pipe-hangers/) - [Beam C-Clamps with Set Screw and Lock Nut](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/beam-c-clamps-with-set-screw-and-lock-nut/) - [Beam Clamps](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/beam-clamps/) - [Channel Brackets and Fittings](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/channel-brackets-and-fittings/) - [Pipe Riser Clamps](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/pipe-riser-clamps/) - [Solar Flashing Lag-Bolt Roof Attachments](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/solar-flashing-lag-bolt-roof-attachments/) - [Solar Hanger Bolt Sets](https://engineeringhardware.com/fastener/solar-hanger-bolt-sets/) ## What can be changed on a support & bracket - **Dimensions** — lengths, diameters and head sizes outside the standard table. - **Thread** — fine pitches, left-hand threads, partial threading, non-standard thread lengths. - **Material** — grades the catalog part is not stocked in, up to and including the customer's own specified steel. - **Strength class** — a higher property class than the standard part, where the material and heat treatment allow it. - **Finish** — plating, passivation or coating to a salt-spray requirement rather than to a default. - **Head and drive** — a drive that is not in the standard, or a head form specific to the assembly. - **Marking** — part numbers, logos or traceability codes on the head. ## Materials this family is supplied in The grades the catalog already describes for these parts. Anything outside this list is quoted against the drawing. - A2 Stainless Steel - A4 Stainless Steel ## How a custom support & bracket is made Which of these applies depends on the drawing and on the quantity. Volume is what usually decides it: forming needs tooling and pays it back over a run, machining needs none and does not. [MillingCutting with a rotating tool against a fixed workpiece — flats, slots, pockets and non-round features.](https://engineeringhardware.com/custom/milling/)[StampingCutting and forming sheet metal between a punch and a die, usually in one press stroke per part.](https://engineeringhardware.com/custom/stamping/)[PunchingShearing a hole or a profile out of sheet with a punch and die.](https://engineeringhardware.com/custom/punching/) ## Order terms - **Minimum order:** 2,000–5,000 pieces. The exact figure depends on the part: it is set by the tooling the drawing calls for, and is confirmed when the drawing has been reviewed. - **Samples:** Within 7 days of drawing approval. - **Drawing:** Preferred, but not required — a sample, photographs or a sketch is enough to start. ## What a quotation needs Nine things, and a drawing settles most of them at once. Where a field is unknown, say so — an assumption stated is better than a blank, and several of these can be recommended rather than specified. - **Drawing:** A 2D drawing (PDF or DWG) or a 3D model settles almost every other question on this list at once. - **Dimensions:** Diameter, length, head size and any features — enough to know what is being made. - **Tolerance:** Tolerance is the single biggest cost driver. Tell us which dimensions are critical and which are not — holding everything tight costs money on features nobody measures. - **Material:** Carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless, brass, aluminium, titanium — or the application, and we will suggest one. - **Strength grade:** Property class to ISO 898-1 (8.8, 10.9, 12.9) or stainless class to ISO 3506 (A2-70, A4-80). This decides the material and the heat treatment together. - **Thread standard:** Metric coarse, metric fine, UNC, UNF, BSW or a pipe thread — and the tolerance class if it is specified. - **Surface finish:** Zinc, hot-dip galvanised, black oxide, Dacromet, Geomet, nickel, passivation, or plain. Salt-spray hours if you have a requirement. - **Quantity:** Annual volume and first-order quantity. Volume changes which process is the right one, so it changes the price more than most buyers expect. - **Application & environment:** What the part holds together, and what it has to survive — temperature, vibration, chemicals, salt. This is what lets us catch a specification that will not work before it is made. ## No drawing? Most replacement parts arrive without one. None of these routes is a problem, and all of them end with a drawing produced for your approval before anything is cut or formed. - **A physical sample:** The most reliable route. The part is measured, the thread and finish identified, and a drawing produced for your approval before anything is made. - **Photographs with a scale:** Photographs against a ruler or a caliper, ideally with a thread pitch gauge reading. Enough to identify a standard part or to start a drawing for a non-standard one. - **A hand sketch:** A sketch with the dimensions that matter is a perfectly good starting point — the drawing gets made from it and comes back to you to check. - **The assembly it goes into:** Sometimes the fastener is wrong in the first place. If the joint is described rather than the part, a better part can be proposed. ## Draw it here No CAD, no account, nothing to install. Draw the part in your browser, generate a real ISO metric thread from M1 to M100 with the end treatment it needs, dimension it, and export a PDF or a DXF to attach below. Sheets run to two metres for long studs and threaded rod. Open the drawing builder ## Questions ### What is the minimum order quantity for a custom part? Between 2,000 and 5,000 pieces for most parts. The exact figure depends on the part: it is set by the tooling the drawing calls for, and is confirmed when the drawing has been reviewed. ### How long does a sample take? Within 7 days once the drawing has been approved. The drawing stage comes first, and for a part being reverse-engineered from a sample it is where most of the time goes. ### Can you make a part without a drawing? Yes. A physical sample, photographs against a scale, or a dimensioned sketch are all workable starting points. A drawing is produced from whichever of those you have and sent back for approval before anything is made. ### How is a custom support & bracket manufactured? Depending on the drawing and the volume: milling, stamping, punching. Forming processes need tooling and repay it over a run; machining needs none, so it is the usual route for a first article or a short run. ## Drawing builder Draw the part, dimension it, and export a PDF or a DXF to attach to the form below. FASTENER **DRAWING** CMD Fastener drawing builder [https://engineeringhardware.com/](https://engineeringhardware.com/) Nothing you draw is uploaded until you send it, and the drawing lives in your own browser — export it before you close the tab. ## Send the part A drawing answers most of this at once. If you do not have one, fill in what you know and attach a photograph — samples follow within 7 days of the drawing being approved.