Delaney Strike Plate Only for Ball Catch

Not something to assume. Ball catch strikes are matched to the catch they ship with, and the strike cutout and ball seat vary by maker. ZenSupply carries the Emtek 8802 Door Ball Catch and the Orca Hardware 70DR Series Drive In Ball Catch, and the Orca comes with its own radius strike, so if you're replacing a non-Delaney catch it's cleaner to buy that brand's complete set than to mix a Delaney plate onto it.

Two complete catches to look at: the Emtek 8802 Door Ball Catch, and the Orca Hardware 70DR Series Drive In Ball Catch, which includes a radius strike. The Orca is a drive-in style, so the catch body is driven into a bored hole in the door edge rather than mortised for a flanged face, which is quicker on a new door and a different prep from a face-mounted catch.

The Delaney part is the strike plate alone - the flat plate that mortises into the door frame and receives the ball, sold on its own in zinc. The Emtek 8802 is a complete door ball catch, so ordering it gets you the catch body as well as its strike. If the catch body in the door edge is sound and only the frame-side plate is bent, chewed out, or missing, the Delaney strike plate is the part that addresses it; if the ball, spring, or catch housing is worn, you want a full catch such as the Emtek 8802 instead.

The Delaney strike plate is a separate frame-side plate you mortise in, so it suits a pocket you can cut or dress to match the plate outline. Where the existing pocket is a radius cut and you would rather not re-square it, the Orca Hardware 70DR Series drive-in ball catch comes with a radius strike, which is shaped to a rounded pocket and drives in rather than sitting on a squared mortise. Match the plate profile to the pocket you already have rather than reworking the jamb.

That's exactly what this part is for. The Delaney strike is sold on its own, so a bent, painted-over, or wrong-finish jamb plate can be swapped without pulling the catch out of the door edge. Match the new plate's mortise footprint and screw holes to the old one before you cut anything; if the outline differs you'll be patching the jamb.

No. The Delaney plate is built as the strike for a ball catch, meaning it is dished to accept a spring-loaded ball and hold it under tension. A roller catch needs a strike with a ramped lip sized to the roller, and a magnetic catch needs a ferrous armature plate, not a dished one. If the catch in the door edge is anything other than a ball catch, source the strike that belongs to that catch. Where the door edge hardware is a ball catch, complete units such as the Emtek 8802 or the Orca Hardware 70DR Series drive-in ball catch with radius strike are the pattern the plate is designed to work with.

The Delaney ball catch strike plate comes in 605 bright brass, 613 satin bronze oil-rubbed, 619 satin nickel, and 625 bright chrome, so a plate can be matched to catches already installed on other doors without changing out the catch bodies. Where you are outfitting new openings rather than repairing existing ones, a complete catch such as the Emtek 8802 or the Orca Hardware 70DR Series covers both halves in one order. A mixed approach works too: complete catches on new doors, strike plates alone where only the frame side is being refreshed.