Emtek 86087 T Strike, Square Corners

Mounting holes on the 86087 are 2-1/4 inches center to center, on a plate 2-3/4 inches high by 1-1/8 inches wide. That is the usual residential strike footprint and hole spacing, so on a jamb already prepped for a standard passage or privacy latch the existing screw holes normally pick straight up and the plate fills the existing mortise. Measure your old plate hole to hole before you order. Anything other than 2-1/4 inches and you are drilling fresh pilot holes.

Not without a chisel. The 86087 is the square corner strike, so dropped into a pocket routed with a radius corner bit the four corners of the plate hit uncut wood and it sits proud of the jamb. Squaring the corners of the mortise with a sharp chisel takes a couple of minutes and the plate then seats flush, but treat it as light carpentry rather than a drop in swap. If the pocket already has square corners at 2-3/4 by 1-1/8 inches, it is a straight exchange.

Passage and privacy sets. That is the spring latch on a non keyed knob or lever, so hall and closet doors and bed and bath privacy doors. Emtek lists the 86087 as a residential replacement part, which is what you want when a painter mangled the old strike or a previous owner left three sets of filled screw holes in the jamb. It is not the plate for a bolt.

No. The Emtek 86087 is a T strike for use with passage and privacy sets, measuring 2-3/4 inches high by 1-1/8 inches wide with mounting holes 2-1/4 inches center to center. The Deltana SP2753 is a deadbolt strike plate, 2-3/4 inches by 1-1/4 inches in steel. The heights match, so the two look interchangeable in a photo, but the SP2753 is cut for a deadbolt bolt and the 86087 is cut for the spring latch of a passage or privacy set. Order by which bore in the jamb you are covering, not by the outside dimension.

The Emtek 86087 T strike is for passage and privacy sets, so it will not serve a deadbolt bore. Two deadbolt strikes cover that opening: the Deltana SP2753, a deadbolt strike plate measuring 2-3/4 inches by 1-1/4 inches in steel, and the Kwikset KWI-80318 full round adjustable strike, which is also a deadbolt strike plate. Both address the upper bore while the 86087 handles the latch below it, so a door with both functions takes two separate plates.

Twelve finishes, using Emtek's standard codes so the strike matches the knob or lever it serves: 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). Order the strike in the same code that is on the trim. If you are replacing one strike in a house full of matched hardware, the code stamped on the old lockset paperwork is what to specify. Note that living finishes like Unlacquered Brass and French Antique change with age, so a new plate next to a twenty year old knob will not read identical for a while.

Unlikely. The 86087 is a fixed plate with 2-1/4 inch hole spacing and no adjustment built into it, so it sits exactly where the old strike sat. A latch that misses is usually a door that has dropped on its hinges or a jamb that has moved, and the cure is at the hinge or the mortise, not the plate. Kwikset does make adjustable strike parts, the 80318 full round adjustable strike and the 81825 6 way adjustable deadlatch, but both are deadbolt strike parts and neither substitutes for a passage or privacy latch strike.

Emtek classes the 86087 as residential hardware, and it is built for the passage and privacy sets that go on interior doors: bedrooms, bathrooms, closets, unit interiors. On a commercial opening running a mortise lock, the frame is normally prepped for the larger ASA style strike, which is a different plate entirely; the Codelocks ASA strike plate in stainless is that type. Do not try to make a 2-3/4 by 1-1/8 inch residential strike serve an ASA prep.

The Emtek 86087 T strike has fixed mounting holes 2-1/4 inches center to center, so alignment is set by where the plate is mortised. The Kwikset KWI-80318 full round adjustable strike is an adjustable design, and it is a deadbolt strike plate rather than a passage or privacy strike. That makes it the answer for a misaligned deadbolt bore, not for a passage latch. On a passage or privacy opening, correcting the alignment means moving the 86087 mortise itself rather than swapping to an adjustable plate.

They are different parts of the same assembly. The Emtek 86087 is the T strike itself, the visible brass plate that mounts on the face of the jamb and comes with its installation screws. The Kwikset 81640 strike box and the Kwikset 81231-001 metal strike dust box are boxes that sit inside the jamb mortise behind a plate to line the bolt pocket, and both are deadbolt strike plate parts. A buyer replacing a marred or wrong-finish faceplate wants the 86087; a buyer whose jamb pocket is chewed out is looking at a box.

No, they sit on opposite halves of the opening. The Emtek 86087 T strike is the jamb-side plate for a passage or privacy set. The Kwikset 81825 is a 6 way adjustable deadlatch, the latch component, and it is catalogued as a deadbolt strike plate function part. Ordering the 81825 when the jamb plate is what is damaged leaves the jamb uncovered, and ordering the 86087 when the latch is binding leaves the latch untouched.

They are cut to two different jamb preps. The Emtek 86087 is a T strike, 2-3/4 inches by 1-1/8 inches, sized for the latch of a residential passage or privacy set. The Codelocks ASA strike plate is an ASA-series strike in a stainless steel finish, the prep used with Codelocks locksets. A jamb already mortised for one will not accept the other without re-cutting, so confirm which prep is in the frame before ordering either.

It does, because the corner shape has to match the mortise already routed in the jamb. The Emtek 86087 is a square corner T strike, so it drops into a jamb cut square without patching. The Kwikset KWI-80318 is a full round adjustable strike, a round profile for a deadbolt bore. Read the existing pocket first: a square pocket takes a square corner plate, and a round pocket takes a full round one.

Installation screws are in the box. For a like for like swap into an existing square cornered pocket that is everything you need, since the plate carries no separate strike box or shim. If the old screw holes are stripped out, plan on a couple of longer screws or a plug and redrill at the jamb, because the plate itself relies on the two holes at 2-1/4 inch centers.

The Emtek 86087 T strike is offered in a finish range that includes oil rubbed bronze (US10B), satin nickel (US15) and flat black (US19), so it can be matched to a knob or lever set already hanging on the door. Among the comparable strikes, the Codelocks ASA strike plate is a stainless steel finish and the Deltana SP2753 is a steel deadbolt strike, which is why they are usually specified where the plate is being matched to function rather than to a decorative finish. On a job standardizing appearance across many openings, the finish designation is the ordering detail to lock down.