Emtek EMPP Privacy Pin

The EMPP is Emtek's emergency release pin for privacy locksets, a small brass pin that sits beside the knob or lever on the outside face of the door. When a bedroom or bath door is locked from the inside, you push a narrow object into the hole on the exterior side to release it. It's a replacement part, so it's what you order when the pin has been lost, bent, or painted over rather than replacing the whole set.

It's specified for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch thick with a standard 2-1/8 inch cross bore and an adjustable 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset, which is the same prep Emtek's passage and privacy knob and lever sets use. Those are the two standard residential bore and backset dimensions, so a door already carrying an Emtek privacy set takes the pin without any new drilling.

No. The pin is a non-keyed part for privacy function only, the bed and bath application where the lock is thumbturned from inside and released from outside in an emergency. A keyed entry door uses a cylinder and key, not a pin hole, so this part has nothing to mount to. If you're locking out a room that needs key control, you want a keyed lockset instead.

Eight finishes, all called out by their US code so you can match the knob or lever already on the door: Lifetime Polished Brass (US3), Satin Brass (US4), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Satin Nickel (US15), Pewter (US15A), Flat Black (US19), and Polished Chrome (US26). If you're replacing pins across a building, order by the US code stamped on your existing Emtek set rather than by the finish name, since names vary between manufacturers and the code doesn't.

The pin itself is just the pin. The round corner versus square corner faceplate choice belongs to the latch in the Emtek passage and privacy sets it works with, and the latch also carries the adjustable 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inch backset. If you're only replacing a lost or damaged pin, the existing latch and faceplate stay in the door and the corner style doesn't come into it. If the latch is also going, match the corner style to the mortise already cut in the door edge so you don't have to re-chisel.

Yes, as long as they're Emtek privacy knob or lever sets and you're matching finish. The EMPP is the single emergency release pin across Emtek's passage and privacy knobset and leverset line, so one part number covers the fleet and you stock by finish code instead of by door. Buildings that were done in one finish package need one line item; mixed-finish buildings need one per US code.

Brass is the base material on the EMPP, then finished in one of the eight plated or coated finishes. That matters on a bathroom door: the pin gets pushed with a paperclip or small screwdriver by people who aren't gentle about it, and a brass body takes that better than a pot metal one. Expect the finish, not the body, to be the thing that shows wear over time.

No, it's purely mechanical. The EMPP is a non-electronic, non-keyed brass pin that releases a privacy latch by hand. There's no wiring, no battery, and nothing to pair with an access control system.