Deltana DSBLO45 Lift Off Hinge 4-1/2" x 4-1/2" Solid Brass

Handing matters here, and it is not a returnable mistake you want to make. The DSBLO45 is built as a handed pair of leaves, offered Left Hand and Right Hand, and the two will not mate with each other. Read the handing by standing on the side the door swings away from you: hinges on your left is left hand, hinges on your right is right hand. Every hinge on one door must be the same hand. Both hands are offered in Oil Rubbed Bronze, Polished Nickel and Unlacquered Brass.

Yes. The two leaves of a lift-off hinge separate, so once the door is unlatched you lift it straight up and off. Both leaves stay mortised and screwed in place, one in the door edge and one in the jamb, so nothing gets re-drilled when the door goes back on. That is why these get used on doors that come off regularly, for moving furniture through, refinishing the slab, or getting at a stair turn. The lift direction follows the handing, so the hand of the hinge and the swing of the door have to agree.

Not on an out-swing exterior door. The DSBLO45 is a residential-duty hinge and it is not a non-removable-pin hinge, so on an out-swing opening the barrel faces the outside and the door can be lifted off from the exposed side without a tool. Keep it to interior openings, or to in-swing doors where the hinge sits on the secure side. For an out-swing or otherwise exposed door, use a hinge built to defeat that, such as the Hager BB1168 full mortise ball bearing hinge with a non-removable pin.

It fits a standard 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 full mortise pocket, and the corners are square. That is the check to make before ordering: if the hinges coming out have rounded corners, the existing pocket is radiused and a square-corner hinge will not seat in it until you chisel the four corners out square. If the existing pocket is already square, the DSBLO45 drops into the same footprint on both the door edge and the jamb. Screw holes are unlikely to line up exactly with the old ones, so plan on plugging and re-drilling.

No. Plain bearing and residential duty is the wrong combination for a door under a closer or in a corridor that cycles all day. A plain bearing hinge runs metal on metal at the knuckles rather than on bearings, so it starts to squeak and sag under that kind of load. For a commercial opening at the same 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 size and square corner, look at the Orca Hardware 3535 Series ball bearing commercial hinge (medium duty) or the Don-Jo HWBB84545 heavy weight full mortise ball bearing hinge. Save the Deltana for residential interior doors where the look matters.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch full mortise hinge with square corners, a plain bearing, and solid brass construction, built for residential use. The same square 4-1/2 inch footprint in a commercial ball bearing hinge is the Orca Hardware 3535 Series, a 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch square corner ball bearing commercial hinge rated medium duty. For heavier traffic at that footprint, Don-Jo offers the HWBB74545 and the HWBB84545, both heavy weight full mortise ball bearing hinges measuring 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch in satin chrome. All of these take the same square 4-1/2 inch mortise, so the door and jamb prep does not change; the bearing type, base material, and finish do.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is cut with square corners, so it seats in a square mortise. If the existing pocket is radiused, match the radius rather than the size alone. Orca Hardware's 3514 Series is a 3.5 inch by 3.5 inch plain bearing commercial hinge with a 1/4 inch radius corner, and the 4014 Series is the same 1/4 inch radius in a 4 inch by 4 inch leaf; both are medium duty. For the deeper 5/8 inch radius common on residential prep, Delaney offers a 3-1/2 inch by 3-1/2 inch interior residential hinge and a 4 inch by 4 inch exterior residential hinge, both 5/8 inch radius and both sold as a pair. Check the corner of the hinge you are pulling with a radius gauge before ordering, since a square leaf and a radiused pocket do not line up at the corners.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a plain bearing hinge, so the swing is controlled by whatever closer or stop is on the opening. To put the closing force in the hinge itself at the same footprint, use the Stanley Security 2060R spring hinge: full mortise, square corner, 4.5 inch by 4.5 inch, ferrous steel base, heavy duty. It matches the DSBLO45 on size, corner style, and full mortise mounting, so the existing square 4-1/2 inch prep carries over, and it adds a spring in the barrel that returns the door.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a solid brass plain bearing hinge with no wire path through the barrel. When the leaf carries power to an electric strike, electric latch retraction, or an electrified lockset, use an energy transfer hinge. The Stanley Security CECB1900R54L is the closest on prep: three knuckle concealed bearing, steel full mortise, standard weight, 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch, square corner, left-handed, four wire. Command Access offers the ETH-BB68, a five knuckle heavy duty steel base energy transfer hinge in the ETH 5 Series, and the ETH-CB70, a three knuckle standard weight steel base version in the ETH 3 Series, rated medium duty. If the door needs more conductors, the BEST CECB179-12C is a steel full mortise concealed bearing electrified hinge with a 12 wire quick connect, rated medium duty. Note that the Stanley is ordered by hand, the same way the DSBLO45 is ordered left hand or right hand.

Sold individually. They box two to a carton and forty to a case, so ordering by the each is how you get an odd count. On a standard full-height interior door, three hinges per leaf is the normal count, two on shorter or lighter doors. All of them on a given door have to be the same hand, so a job with doors swinging both ways needs quantities split between left hand and right hand rather than one bulk number.

The fastener specified for the DSBLO45 is a slot head #12 x 1/4 wood screw, which tells you what the hinge is meant for: wood doors and wood jambs. A hollow metal frame is machine screwed into tapped holes, not wood screwed, so this is not the hinge to put on a steel frame. The slot head matters if you care about the look, since a Phillips or square drive head reads modern next to solid brass hardware.

Solid brass, leaf and substrate both, not a plated steel hinge with a brass-look coating. That is a practical difference in a bathroom, a coastal house, or anywhere humid: there is no plating to wear off the high spots and no steel core to rust if it does. Most residential hinges in this size are plated steel, the Emtek 91013 residential plain bearing hinge among them, so if a customer has been fighting rusting or flaking hinges, the material is the fix.

Two directions, depending on what the opening needs. For the decorative look at the same 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 size without the lift-off feature, the McKinney SQ3331 square barrel 2-knuckle decorative hinge is a standard-duty option. If the door also has to close itself, the Stanley Security 2060R spring hinge is a 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 full mortise square corner hinge, so it drops into the same prep the Deltana would. Stay with the DSBLO45 only if lifting the door off without touching the screws is something you actually want.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a mechanical brass hinge with no switch in it. To get door position back to an access control panel through the hinge, Command Access makes the ETM-BB68, an energy transfer monitor hinge with an integrated door position switch, heavy duty in the ETM 5 Series, and the ETM-CB70, an energy transfer monitor hinge with door position sensing on a three knuckle steel base, medium duty in the ETM 3 Series. Both combine the power transfer path and the monitoring contact in one hinge, so the door does not need a separate recessed position switch in the head.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a residential plain bearing hinge in solid brass at 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch. On a hollow core or light panel interior door prepped for a smaller leaf, the same square corner plain bearing arrangement is available in plated steel: the Emtek 91013 is a 3-1/2 inch by 3-1/2 inch residential plain bearing hinge with square corners in plated steel, sold as a pair; the Ives 1010RP is a steel plain bearing residential hinge with square corners sold as a set of three, rated medium duty; and the Schlage Residential S3P1010 is a 3.5 inch by 3.5 inch square corner plain bearing mortise hinge in a pack of three, also medium duty. All three share the square corner and plain bearing action with the DSBLO45 in a smaller steel leaf.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a residential plain bearing hinge with a 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch leaf. A wider leaf gives more screw purchase in the stile and clears thicker trim: the Don-Jo HWBB75045 is a heavy weight full mortise ball bearing hinge at 5 inch by 4-1/2 inch in steel with a satin chrome finish, and the HWBB85045 is a heavy weight full mortise ball bearing hinge at 5 inch by 4-1/2 inch in brass with a satin chrome finish. Both are heavy duty and both are wider than the DSBLO45 leaf, so the jamb and door mortise have to be widened to 5 inch rather than reused.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is solid brass through the leaf and pin, which is why it holds up on coastal and damp openings where a plated steel hinge gives up its coating. In a heavier commercial build with the same non-ferrous approach, the Don-Jo HWBB85045 is a heavy weight full mortise ball bearing hinge in brass, 5 inch by 4-1/2 inch, finished in satin chrome, rated heavy duty. The McKinney T2314 is a non ferrous hinge in standard weight with five knuckles, rated medium duty. Both trade the DSBLO45 decorative brass finishes for a commercial plated look.

No. The Deltana DSBLO45 is a full mortise hinge ordered left hand or right hand, which means it hangs a door that swings one way. For a door that pushes open in both directions, the BEST DAP-3 is a heavy duty double acting pivot for commercial interior doors, and it mounts as a pivot at the top and bottom of the door rather than as a leaf in the jamb. That is a different prep entirely, so plan the opening around the pivot before the door is machined.

Not without changing the prep. The Deltana DSBLO45 is full mortise, meaning both leaves are routed flush, one into the door edge and one into the jamb. The Hager 1129 is a half mortise plain bearing commercial hinge in 4-1/2 inch steel: one leaf mortises into the door and the other applies to the face of the frame. Same nominal size and same plain bearing action, different mounting, so it belongs on a frame prepped for a half mortise leaf and not on a door hung with full mortise hinges.

Yes, the lift-off hinges accept Deltana's decorative finials. The finials are a separate Deltana item rather than part of the hinge, so order them alongside and match the finish to the hinge you pick: Oil Rubbed Bronze, Polished Nickel or Unlacquered Brass. This is the reason these get specified on visible interior openings in older homes, where a plain steel butt hinge would look wrong.

It will, and that is the intent. Unlacquered brass has no clear coat over it, so it oxidizes and patinas with handling and humidity, going from bright to a warmer brown. Some buyers want exactly that on a restoration; anyone who wants it to look the same in five years should take Oil Rubbed Bronze or Polished Nickel instead. Whichever way you go, order every hinge on a run of doors in the same finish, because a patina that developed on one opening will not be matched by a new hinge later.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a decorative solid brass hinge at 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch that accepts Deltana decorative finials on the barrel, so the visible barrel is part of the design. The McKinney SQ3331 is the other decorative hinge at that exact size: a square barrel two knuckle decorative hinge, 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch, standard duty. The square barrel gives a flat-sided profile at the jamb, where the DSBLO45 presents a round barrel that can be capped with a finial.

The Deltana DSBLO45 uses a plain bearing, where the knuckles ride directly on each other. Concealed bearing hinges hide the bearing inside the knuckle and are the usual pick where the barrel has to look plain but the door cycles hard. The Ives 3CB1 is a steel three knuckle concealed bearing full mortise hinge rated medium duty, the 3CB1-B is the same three knuckle concealed bearing full mortise hinge in medium duty commercial grade, and the 3CB1HW is the heavy weight concealed bearing full mortise version with three knuckles, rated heavy duty. The Hager 920 is a full mortise concealed plain bearing hinge with two knuckle steel construction, medium duty, if the opening calls for a two knuckle profile.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is solid brass in a 4-1/2 inch by 4-1/2 inch full mortise leaf with square corners. In steel at the same footprint, the Stanley Security FBB191 is a five knuckle full mortise standard weight hinge at 4.5 inch by 4.5 inch. McKinney's MacPro line covers the same standard weight five knuckle build in the MP79 full mortise hinge and the MPB79, both standard duty. These are the hinges to specify when the opening is painted or the barrel is not meant to be seen, where the DSBLO45 is chosen for a brass barrel that shows.

The Deltana DSBLO45 is a residential hinge in solid brass, which is the wrong material and duty class for an opening that gets attacked. Detention and high abuse openings use a different family: the BEST BB855 is a heavy-duty steel double weight concealed ball bearing prison hinge in the Detention Hardware series, and the Stanley Security BB855 is a double weight prison hinge at 5 inch by 6 inch furnished with no holes and not swaged, so it is machined to the frame on site. Where the door cannot be mortised at all, the Hager 990 STEEL is a full surface prison hinge, 3 inch by 4 inch, with a welded tip and a plain bearing, rated heavy duty, and it applies to the face of both door and frame.