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The Door Schedule: How Hardware Is Actually Specified
Projects do not buy locks. They buy door types, and each door type is a set of hardware that has to agree with itself. The document that decides this is the door schedule, and it is worth understanding before you quote against one.
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Backset and Centre Distance: How to Read a Mortise Lock Case Number
Two numbers decide whether a lock case fits the door in front of you. They are printed in the model number, and getting them wrong is the most common reason a container of hardware cannot be installed.
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What the Letters After a Model Number Mean
607 PB, 607 AB, 607 SN and 607 BN are the same lock in four finishes. The letters are a finish code and a function code, read from the right, and once you can read them a price list of four hundred lines collapses into about sixty products.