Kwikset 81087-006 Emergency Key For All Turn Button Privacy Function Locksets

It's the emergency release tool for Kwikset privacy locksets that use a turn button inside. When a bathroom or bedroom door is locked and someone needs in from the corridor side, the tool goes into the outside face of the knob or lever and releases the privacy latch. Kwikset states it works with all turn button privacy function locksets, so one tool covers the turn button privacy openings in a building rather than a single model.

Turn button privacy only. Kwikset ties the 81087-006 to turn button privacy function locksets, which are the ones with a small thumbturn on the inside rather than a push button. If the inside side of your lock is a push button, this is not the release tool for it.

Yes, as long as those doors are on Kwikset turn button privacy locksets. The 81087-006 is specified for all turn button privacy function locksets, not keyed to any individual door, so a property manager or maintenance tech can carry one tool for the whole run of privacy openings. Most facilities buy several so there's one per cart or per building.

Kwikset classifies the 81087-006 as commercial, so it belongs on a maintenance ring in hotels, offices, schools, and multi-family as much as in a house. It's a service tool, not part of the door's locking hardware, so it doesn't change any rating on the lockset itself.

It's an emergency release tool, not a cut and keyed blank. There's nothing to key, bit, or match to a keyway, so there's no keying information to specify when you order the 81087-006. You order the part number and that's the whole spec.

Single part, one model. The 81087-006 is offered as one configuration with no finish, size, or handing choice to make, so there's nothing to pair with it. If the privacy lockset itself is failing rather than just locked, the tool won't fix that, you're replacing the lock.