Delaney 501L - MD Style Lever Exit Device Exterior Trim - Passage Function

Yes. The 501L MD lever trim covers stock hollow metal doors with the 161 cutout, which is the standard cylindrical prep on commercial hollow metal doors. If your door was originally prepped for a cylindrical lockset and you're converting it to an exit device, the escutcheon hides that 161 hole with no filler plate needed.

The 501L MD lever trim is built for 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch doors. That covers the standard 1-3/4 inch commercial door plus thicker leaves. On a 1-3/8 inch door it is the wrong part, and the Pamex E9000 (1-3/8 to 2 inch) or Tell EDELT53 (1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch) trims cover that thinner range.

No cylinder, no key. Passage function means the lever is always active and anyone can enter from the outside whenever the trim is installed, so it suits a door that stays unsecured on the pull side but still needs panic egress. If you need the outside locked, look at a keyed trim instead, such as the Design Hardware KIL storeroom trim or the Tell EDELT80 storeroom trim.

The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is passage function, meaning the lever is always active and there is no cylinder. Other passage function exit device lever trims include the Arrow SRX01 Sierra lever with rose, built for the ED910, S1150 and S1250 devices, and the Corbin Russwin 3310AET for the ED300 Series. The Corbin Russwin x810ET covers ED4000 Series devices and the x910ET covers the ED5200S, ED5200, ED5400 and ED5800 Series. The key point on any of these is that exit trim is device-specific: the trim has to match the exit device family already on the door, so confirm the device series before ordering across brands.

The Delaney 501L is mechanical passage trim, so it is always unlocked and there is nothing for a panel to control. For access control, electrified exit trim is the substitute. The Command Access ET15, ET25 and ET26 all run 12V/24V with fail safe and fail secure options, and the ET26 is Grade 1 with a field reversible design; the Command Access 230L is the electrified version for Von Duprin V96, 36 and 23 Series devices. From the device manufacturers, the Von Duprin E360L-BE-03 is a Grade 1 electric passage trim with the 03 lever, fail safe, for 33/35A Series, and the Falcon 510L-FSA/FSE is heavy duty electrified trim for 25 Series devices. Note that a fail safe electric passage trim behaves like the 501L only when power is applied or cut, depending on how it is configured.

Passage trim like the Delaney 501L keeps the lever always active, so it gives no security from the outside; anyone can pull the door open. For a locked exterior, storeroom function trim is the usual answer: the Design Hardware KIL storeroom trim for 1000 and 2000 Series exit devices uses a Schlage C keyway with a flat lever, the Pamex E9000 is a Grade 1 storeroom trim with an L3 lever, the Marks USA M195F is storeroom function with spring loaded roses for the M9900 touchbar, and the Tell EDELT80 is a storeroom escutcheon lever trim. For keyed entry rather than storeroom, the Design Hardware KIL entry trim and LE08 entry trim, and the Tell EDELT53 entry trim, cover that function.

The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is built for doors 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch thick, so a 1-3/8 inch door falls below its range. Trims that reach down to 1-3/8 inch include the Pamex E9000 storeroom trim at 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, and the Tell escutcheon trims - the EDELT53 entry and EDELT80 storeroom, both 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, along with the Tell EDPT pull trim with cylinder hole over the same range. Measure the door at the lock edge before ordering, since a trim short of the thickness will not draw the through-bolts up tight.

Yes, the 501L MD lever trim is ADA compliant. The lever shape is what does it, no grasping or twisting to operate, which is why lever trim rather than knob trim goes on accessible egress doors. If you're standardizing a building to meet accessibility requirements, this replaces knob trim like the Von Duprin 210K-BE.

No. Passage trim operates by lever only and takes no cylinder, so there's nothing extra to buy on the keying side. Keyed Delaney trim in the same MD lever family is set up for a Schlage C 6-pin keyway as standard with KW1 5-pin as an option, which matters if you're keying the rest of the openings in the building to one of those systems.

Passage trim such as the Delaney 501L MD lever gives entrance by lever with no cylinder, and the lever stays active at all times. Nightlatch trim is keyed: the outside lever or pull is dead until the key retracts the latch. Nightlatch options include the Sargent 704ET, a Grade 1 heavy duty night latch lever trim with field reversible operation, the Sargent 704-ETL with key retract for PE Series devices, the Sargent 744 for 8700 and 8900 Series surface vertical rod and mortise devices, the Corbin Russwin VT957ET nightlatch escutcheon in stamped or formed stainless steel for ED5000 Series, the Dorma YR03R wide stile nightlatch escutcheon with R lever, and the Accentra 121NL nightlatch trim. Choose passage when the opening is meant to stay open to the public and nightlatch when the outside has to stay locked between key uses.

The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is ADA compliant and passage function, so it will not lock and is not a classroom solution. For classroom function on exit devices, the Falcon 510L is heavy duty classroom trim with a lever handle for 24 and 25 Series devices, the Falcon 179L is medium duty classroom lever control trim for 1790 Series, the Accentra 446F is Grade 1 classroom function trim with the Augusta lever, and the Dexter ED1000T-CLRM-TP-NC is Grade 1 classroom trim using a thumbpiece and pull plate with a cylinder, supplied less cylinder. If a lever is required for accessible operation, the thumbpiece version is the one to rule out.

Among lever exit device trims, the Grade 1 options include the Pamex E9000 storeroom L3 lever, the Dexter ED1500T with regular lever, the Design Hardware KIL entry and KIL storeroom trims and the LE08 entry trim with flat lever and escutcheon, the Sargent 704ET and 704-ETL night latch lever trims, the Sargent 744 freewheeling trim for 8700 and 8900 Series devices, the Accentra 446F classroom trim with Augusta lever, the Von Duprin E360L-BE-03 electric passage trim, and the Command Access ET26. For a facility standard, pair the grade with the function you need per opening - the Delaney 501L MD lever covers the passage openings where the outside is meant to stay free.

The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is mechanical passage, so there is no credential on it at all. If the goal is to drop keys, pushbutton exit trim replaces it: the Dormakaba E-Plex 201U is electronic pushbutton exit trim in the E-Plex 2000 Series for wide stile doors, the Dormakaba PowerPlex P201U is exit trim for rim, mortise and surface vertical rod devices, and the Dormakaba E-Plex 5067 is a mechanical pushbutton mortise lock. Codes change without rekeying, which is the practical difference from any keyed lever trim.

They mount in the same place but they do not do the same job. The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is ADA compliant, which lever operation supports and a knob does not. The Von Duprin 210K-BE is knob trim with a blank escutcheon for 22 Series devices, and the Falcon 212L is a blank escutcheon trim for 20 Series with shear pin protection - a blank escutcheon has no operating trim at all, so the door only opens from the push side. If accessible operation matters on the opening, a lever trim is the one to hold.

Only if the outside does not need to retract the latch by hand. The Delaney 501L MD lever operates the device from outside at all times. Pull trims are a different proposition: the Tell EDPT pull trim has a cylinder hole and ships less cylinder, the Design Hardware 2P-03NL is Grade 1 pull trim with a cylinder hole in night latch function for 1000R and 2000R devices, and the Dexter ED1500T-PULL-NC is nightlatch pull trim with a raised lip plate. Each of those needs a key to get in; the pull itself does nothing to the latch.

The Delaney 501L MD lever exit device trim comes in US26D dull chrome, US10B oil rubbed bronze and US19 black. US26D is the common institutional match on hollow metal openings; several comparable trims are catalogued in 26D as well, including the Tell EDELT53 and EDELT80 escutcheon lever trims, the Tell EDPT pull trim, and the Design Hardware 2P-03NL pull trim in 32D. Confirm the existing trim's finish code rather than matching by eye, since 26D and 32D read similarly on a door.

The difference is function first, lever style second. The Delaney 501L MD lever is passage - always unlocked from outside, no cylinder. Accentra's Augusta lever line splits by function: the 426F is escutcheon trim for 6000 and 1800 Series devices, the 441F is night latch keyed lever trim, and the 446F is classroom function Grade 1. So the Augusta family is a choice within a device series, while the 501L MD lever answers the passage opening specifically. Match the device series before the lever design.

Duty level tracks traffic and abuse more than function. On the comparable lever trims, the Falcon 179L and 212L are medium duty, while the Falcon 510L, the Sargent 704ET and 704-ETL, and the Von Duprin 210K-BE and 230DT are heavy duty. The Delaney 501L MD lever trim is passage function on hollow metal doors with a 161 prep, which is the standard interior corridor and stairwell condition. For an exterior entrance or a high-cycle public opening, the heavy duty trims are the ones to look at.