Baldwin 0440-150 Adjustable Roller Catch, Satin Nickel Finish

It depends on the bore. The 0440 needs a 1 inch diameter hole 1-5/8 inches deep in the door edge, plus a mortise for a 1 x 2-1/4 inch face plate. If the old catch used a smaller bore you can drill it out; if it used a larger one, the 0440 face will not cover and you will be patching the edge. The strike side is a separate 1-1/8 x 2-3/4 inch plate on the jamb, so old strike screw holes rarely line up.

Lip to center on the 0440 strike is 1-5/16 inches. That is the dimension you use to lay out the jamb plate so the roller seats in the strike rather than riding the lip. Get it wrong and the door either stands proud or slams past the detent.

Yes, the 0440 has adjustable tension, so you set how much push it takes to break the door open. That is the reason to pick a roller catch over a fixed ball catch on a closet or a French door pair, where one leaf needs to hold firmly and the other needs to release without a shove.

Baldwin lists the 0440 as a residential product in its Estate Series. It is a door catch, not a latch or a lock, so it holds a door shut by friction only and has no security function. For multi-family unit doors or anything on a commercial opening with traffic or code requirements, this is the wrong category of part.

A roller catch like the Baldwin 0440 rolls into the strike instead of a spring-loaded ball dropping into a dimple, and its tension is adjustable, so you can dial it down on a leaf that gets opened often or up on one that gets bumped. A ball catch is the simpler, smaller-bore option when the door only needs to be kept from drifting. The 0440 takes a 1 inch bore 1-5/8 inches deep, which is more material than most ball catches need, so check the door edge has room, especially on a narrow stile glass door.

The strike comes with it. The 0440 is supplied as a catch plus its jamb strike, 1-1/8 inches wide by 2-3/4 inches long, in the matching finish. You supply nothing but the screws-and-bore layout; Baldwin publishes a drilling template for the 0440 to mark both halves.

Four finishes: 102 Oil Rubbed Bronze, 103 Lifetime Polished Brass, 150 Satin Nickel, and 190 Satin Black. Those are Baldwin's standard finish codes, so if the levers and hinges on the opening are already Baldwin in 150, the catch will read the same. Note that only the small face plate and strike show once installed.