Emtek 86085 Full Lip Strike, 1/4" Radius Corners

No. The 86085 is cut with 1/4 inch radius corners, so it seats in a mortise routed with a rounded corner, which is what you get when the jamb was routed with a bit rather than chiseled square. Pull the old strike and look at the four corners of the pocket: if they come to a sharp point, that opening wants a square corner strike and this one will sit in a pocket that shows daylight at the corners. Rounded corners, and it drops in.

Wrong part for a deadbolt. The lip on the 86085 is there to catch the angled face of a spring latch and ride it into the pocket as the door swings shut. A deadbolt is thrown by hand and needs no lip, so it takes a flat strike over its own bolt pocket. For that, look at the Deltana SP2753, a 2-3/4 by 1-1/4 inch steel deadbolt strike, or the Kwikset 80318 full round adjustable strike if the jamb is bored round rather than mortised rectangular. Doors that have both a latch and a deadbolt need one of each, not one strike doing both jobs.

The Emtek 86085 is a full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners and ships with an underplate and screws, and its lip is shaped to guide a latch bolt. For a deadbolt opening, the Deltana SP2753 is a strike plate with a deadbolt function, measuring 2-3/4 inches by 1-1/4 inches in steel, so it covers a rectangular deadbolt mortise rather than a latch keeper. If the jamb has both a latch bore and a separate deadbolt bore, those are two different plates and each is ordered on its own. Measure the existing cutout before choosing, since a deadbolt plate has no lip to fold around the jamb edge.

The Emtek 86085 is a full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners, so its keeper opening sits where the plate sits and alignment is set by where you cut the jamb. When the bolt is landing off the keeper and you would rather move the strike than the mortise, Kwikset lists the 81825 as a 6 way adjustable deadlatch, a strike plate part whose engagement can be shifted to meet a bolt that has drifted. The trade is appearance and prep: the adjustable part is built around movement, while the 86085 gives a finished lipped face in one of twelve decorative finishes including Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B) and Flat Black (US19).

The lip is the tongue that wraps out of the pocket and lays across the face of the jamb. On the 86085 it runs the full height of the plate, so the latch has a continuous ramp to ride and the jamb wood behind it is covered top to bottom. A T-strike carries a shorter lip only across the middle of the plate, which shows less metal on the jamb face. Full lip is the choice where doors get closed hard and the jamb edge is taking the abuse, or where the door hangs slightly out of plumb and the latch needs more ramp to find the hole.

It is built as residential hardware, and a hollow metal commercial frame is almost always factory prepped for an ASA cutout, which is a taller opening than a residential strike covers. Dropping the 86085 into that prep leaves the pocket exposed. For that frame, the Codelocks ASA strike plate in stainless steel is the part that matches the prep. Keep the 86085 for wood jambs and residential openings, including apartment unit entries and interior doors in multi-family.

Screws are in the box, along with an underplate that goes in behind the strike. That means a jamb swap is a self-contained job: no separate fastener pack to chase and no second line item to add to the order. Worth knowing if you are replacing strikes across a run of doors, since the count of screws scales with the number of strikes you order rather than needing its own quantity.

No, those are two different parts of the same assembly. The Kwikset 81640 is a strike box and the Kwikset 81231-001 is a metal strike dust box - both are the enclosure that sits inside the jamb and receives the bolt, and both are catalogued as deadbolt strike plate parts. The Emtek 86085 is the visible face plate: a full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners that comes with its own underplate and screws. If your jamb is missing the box behind the plate, you need a box in addition to a strike, not instead of one.

The Emtek 86085 is a full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners built for residential door hardware, and it is cut to its own footprint rather than the taller ASA frame prep. For an opening already prepped for ASA, the Codelocks CDL-ASA is an ASA strike plate in a stainless steel finish and matches that prep directly. Choosing between them comes down to what is cut in the frame: an ASA prep takes an ASA plate, and a residential jamb mortise takes the lipped plate.

A round bore wants a round strike face. The Kwikset 80318 is a full round adjustable strike, a deadbolt strike plate that seats in a bored hole and adjusts to meet the bolt. The Emtek 86085 is a full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners, a rectangular plate with softened corners that suits a routed mortise with a matching 1/4 inch radius - the profile a router bit leaves, as opposed to a square corner chiselled by hand. Check which of the two your jamb already carries before ordering, because converting from one to the other means new prep in the frame.

The Emtek 86085 full lip strike with 1/4 inch radius corners is made in twelve finishes, so it can be run to match the trim already on the door: Polished Brass - Lifetime (US3), Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), Satin Brass (US4), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Polished Nickel - Lifetime (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Pewter (US15A), Flat Black (US19), Polished Chrome (US26), Medium Bronze (MB) and Tumbled White Bronze (TWB). Among the comparable strikes, the Codelocks CDL-ASA ASA strike plate is offered in a stainless steel finish, which reads as a functional commercial keeper rather than a decorative one. For a whole-house or whole-floor standardisation, order the same finish code across every opening so the strikes match door to door.