Delaney Half Hinge Pin Door Stop

No drilling. A hinge pin stop installs on an existing butt hinge pin, so there is nothing screwed into the door face, the jamb, the baseboard, or the floor. That is why property managers use them on rentals and turnovers, and it is why they are the usual fix when a wall-mounted bumper would hit drywall with no blocking behind it. The Delaney unit is zinc and measures 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches.

It mounts to a conventional butt hinge with a removable pin, which covers the 3 1/2 and 4 inch steel hinges on most interior and entry doors. Doors hung on spring hinges, continuous geared hinges, or pivots have no accessible hinge pin to clamp to, so a hinge pin stop is the wrong part there. A floor stop or wall bumper handles those openings.

The Delaney is a stop. It limits how far the door swings and protects the wall; it does not hold the door in the open position. If the job calls for a hold-open, the Orca Hardware HPDS and HPHD hinge pin units are listed with a door holder function, and the heavy-duty HPHD is the stouter of the two bodies.

No - the Emtek 2241 Brass Hinges Pivot Stop is a pivot stop, a different part that works with a pivot-hung door rather than clamping to the pin of a butt hinge. If the door swings on standard butt hinges, the hinge pin stops are the right family: the Delaney half hinge pin stop, the Sure-Loc SUR-DS9, or the Orca HPDS. Reach for the Emtek 2241 only when the opening is actually pivot hung.

The Sure-Loc Hinge Pin Door Stop (SUR-DS9) is the closest straight equivalent - it is the same hinge pin style stop, mounting on the barrel of an existing butt hinge rather than on the floor or baseboard. The Delaney half hinge pin stop measures 1 3/4 by 2 1/4 and is made of zinc, and comes in 619 Satin Nickel, 622 Matte Black, and 613 Satin Bronze Oil-Rubbed. The Orca Hardware HPDS Hinge Pin Door Stop is a second one-for-one option in the same style.

For openings that get worked hard - a corridor door in a multi-family building, a back-of-house door in a hotel - the heavy duty versions are the ones to look at. The Sure-Loc Heavy-Duty Hinge Pin Door Stop (SUR-DS10) and the Orca Hardware HPHD HD Hinge Pin Stop (ORC-TH-HPHD) are both built in the heavy duty pattern of the same hinge pin design. The Delaney half hinge pin stop is the standard-pattern zinc unit at 1 3/4 by 2 1/4, which suits residential and light commercial interior doors.

The Orca Hardware hinge pin units are built as door holders, so they catch and hold the door at the open position rather than only limiting the swing: the HPDS Hinge Pin Door Stop, the HPHD HD Hinge Pin Stop, and the HPST Series Hinge Pin Stop all carry that door holder function. The Delaney half hinge pin stop is a stop that arrests the swing to protect the wall. For a unit that has to keep a door propped, specify one of the Orca holders.

The half version is a single-sided stop: it sits on one side of the hinge barrel and the door stops against that one arm. A full or two-piece design clamps on both sides of the barrel and cushions on both arms. The single-arm Delaney is the lower-profile of the two and less visible above the hinge, while two-sided bodies spread the stopping load across both halves of the hinge. Either way the stop limits swing at the hinge, not at the lock edge.

Zinc is the right body for residential and light commercial interior doors. On a heavily used opening, a classroom, corridor, or apartment entry that gets kicked open daily, the stopping force concentrated on one hinge pin is the weak point, not the finish. For that traffic, step up to a heavy-duty hinge pin body such as the Sure-Loc DS10 heavy-duty unit or the Orca HPHD, or move the stop off the hinge entirely to a floor or wall mount.

Sure-Loc carries three units in this family that let a facility standardize on a single line: the Hinge Pin Door Stop (SUR-DS9), the Heavy-Duty Hinge Pin Door Stop (SUR-DS10), and the Hinge Door Stop (SUR-DS11). Orca covers the same ground with the HPDS, HPHD, and HPST series. The Delaney half hinge pin stop is the zinc unit at 1 3/4 by 2 1/4 offered in 619 Satin Nickel, 622 Matte Black, and 613 Satin Bronze Oil-Rubbed, so matching finish across a mixed set of doors is usually the deciding factor.

One per door does the job on a standard interior or entry door, set on the center hinge or the top hinge where the swing is easiest to control. Adding a second on another hinge splits the load and is worth doing on heavier slabs or doors that get thrown open hard. Since the Delaney stop comes in satin nickel, matte black, and satin bronze oil-rubbed, a fleet of doors can be ordered in one finish across the whole building.

The Sure-Loc DS11 is catalogued as a Hinge Door Stop, while the Sure-Loc DS9 and the Delaney half hinge pin stop are hinge pin stops - the pin-mounted style that clamps onto the hinge barrel with an adjustable arm bearing on the door face. If a plan calls specifically for a hinge pin stop, confirm the DS11 matches that mounting before substituting it.