Emtek Decorative Hinge Tips for Solid Brass Hinges - Ball Tip Set (4 Tips Per Set)

The Emtek ball tip set is ordered against the hinge you already have, and the choices run 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 residential duty, 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 heavy duty plain or ball bearing, 4 x 4 residential duty, 4 x 4 heavy duty plain or ball bearing, and a single option covering 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 or 5 x 5 heavy duty plain or ball bearing. So yes on the larger hinges, but only in the heavy duty version. Measure the leaf height and width on the existing hinge and match the option to it, because a residential duty tip and a heavy duty tip are not the same part even at the same hinge size.

Four tips per set. A butt hinge takes two tips, one at each end of the pin, so one set dresses two hinges. A standard interior door hung on three hinges needs two sets, and you will have two tips spare. Property managers doing a run of doors should count hinges, not doors, when ordering.

Emtek decorative tips are replacement parts for the ends of the hinge pin, not a new hinge, so the door leaf and frame leaf stay screwed where they are. The work is at the pin: the existing tips come off and the ball tips go on. Nothing about the mortise, screw pattern, or hinge size changes, which is why the tips are sold by the hinge size they work with rather than by door prep.

Ten finishes, with the US codes so you can match them to knobs, levers, and hinges already in the building: Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Brass (US4), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Two of those behave differently over time. Unlacquered brass has no clear coat and will darken with handling and air, which is the point of it if you want the hinges to age with the rest of an unlacquered set. Polished Brass Lifetime is the coated one that stays bright.

Brass through the material and substrate, which is why the finish list carries true brass options like unlacquered brass and polished brass. Emtek classes this hardware as residential, so it belongs on apartment interiors, condo units, and home entries rather than on a high-traffic commercial opening where an institutional buyer needs a graded, certified hinge. For a hotel corridor or a school, spec the hinge itself to the traffic first and treat decorative tips as a finish decision on the residential side of the property.

Both. The heavy duty options are written to cover plain or ball bearing hinges at 3-1/2 x 3-1/2, 4 x 4, and 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 or 5 x 5. What matters for the tip is the pin end and the hinge size, not whether the knuckle carries bearings. The residential duty options are separate line items at 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 and 4 x 4.

Model 9726X, from the Emtek Select line. The X in the number is the placeholder for the finish and hinge-size combination you pick, so give a supplier the finish code (for example US10B Oil Rubbed Bronze) and the hinge size the tips are going on, not the model number alone.

Ball tip is the simplest of the decorative tip shapes, a plain sphere at each end of the pin, and Emtek styles this set as contemporary under its American Classic theme. If you want something more ornate, that is a different tip shape rather than a different finish, so change the tip style at order time. The hinge itself is unaffected either way.