Rockwood 82 Push Plate, 8" by 16", Standard Gauge 0.050

J301 is the ANSI/BHMA designation the Rockwood 82 carries, and the J series is the standard's classification for door protection plates such as push, kick and armor plates. When a spec on a drawing calls for a J301 push plate, the 82 answers that call-out directly, which is the usual way an institutional or MRO submittal is written.

Fasteners are specified as #6 by 5/8 inch oval head sheet metal screws. That is a wood and hollow metal door fastener, so on a standard hollow metal or wood door you drill and drive straight into the face. On a glass or aluminum stile door, sheet metal screws are the wrong attachment and you would want a through bolt style plate instead, such as the Ives 8302 heavy duty pull plate with through bolt mounting.

Push plate on the push side, pull plate on the pull side, and on a single leaf you usually order one of each. The Rockwood 82 is a flat push plate with no handle, so it protects the door face and gives a clean palm surface but gives you nothing to grip. If you need a grip on the opposite face, that is a pull plate: the Trimco 1010 Series cast pull plate with 5 inch center to center, the Trimco 1014 Series half round with a 6 inch pull, or the Ives 8303 with 8 inch or 10 inch center to center mounting are all pull plates ZenSupply carries.

The Rockwood 82 is designed to be mated with most any door pull, so the pull side is an open choice. Delaney builds pull plates in the same two footprints as its push plates, 4 inch by 16 inch and 3-1/2 inch by 15 inch, if a matching push and pull set in one size family is the goal. For a heavier pull side, the Ives 8302 is a heavy duty pull plate with through bolt mounting, and the Ives 8303 is heavy duty with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting. Trimco covers the shaped-pull options: the 1013 is a round heavy duty pull plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull and the 1014 is a half-round pull plate with a 6 inch center-to-center pull.

The Rockwood 82 is a stainless steel push plate in an 8 inch by 16 inch size, standard 0.050 gauge. If the door prep or the existing plate shadow calls for a narrower plate on the same 16 inch height, the Delaney 4 inch by 16 inch push plate covers that footprint. For a narrower and shorter plate, Delaney also builds a 3-1/2 inch by 15 inch push plate. All three are push plates, so the mounting logic is the same: fasteners through the plate into the door face, no through-bolting and no lock prep involved.

No, and this is the substitution that gets ordered by mistake most often. The Rockwood 82 is a push plate: a flat stainless steel plate, 8 inches by 16 inches, that takes hand pressure on the push side of the door and has no handle on it. A pull plate carries a pull bar mounted to the plate, like the Trimco 1010 with a 5 inch center-to-center pull, the Trimco 1012 cast tapered pull plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull, or the Ives 8303 with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting. On a pair of doors you typically need both parts, not two of one: the push plate on the push face and a pull plate on the pull face.

At 8 by 16 inches, the Rockwood 82 is one of the larger standard push plate sizes, so it covers a good area of a door face where the old plate sat. Where it will not cover, Rockwood offers custom sizes on request, which is the route to take when you are replacing an oversized plate and need the new one to hide the existing scarring rather than sit inside it.

Solid stainless steel, not plated. That matters on a high traffic opening because a plated finish wears through at the palm strike point and starts to show the base metal, where stainless carries the finish all the way through. The 82 is a commercial grade item, not a residential decorative plate.

US32D, which is the same finish as 630, satin stainless steel. That is the standard commercial finish on levers, exit device trim, hinges and pulls across institutional buildings, so an 82 push plate drops in beside existing 630 hardware without a mismatch. It is the only finish the 82 is offered in here.

Yes. The 82 is a plain plate with no cutouts tied to a specific pull, so it mates with most any door pull you choose. The practical constraint is finish rather than fit: pick a pull in 630 satin stainless if you want it to read as one set with the 82.

0.050 is Rockwood's standard gauge on the 82, and it is the normal specification for institutional push plates, the buildings Rockwood hardware is normally used on: schools, hospitals, offices, retail, detention, hotels and restaurants. A push plate takes palm and shoulder pressure rather than cart impact, so standard gauge is the usual call for corridor doors. If the door is taking cart or gurney strikes low down, that is a kick plate problem, not a push plate one.

If 8 by 16 inches is more plate than the opening needs, ZenSupply carries Delaney push plates in 4 by 16 inches and in 3-1/2 by 15 inches. Both are narrower plates in roughly the same height range, which suits a narrower door face or a lighter duty interior opening. For a decorative rather than institutional look, the Emtek Knoxville, Modern and lost wax cast bronze Petal push and pull plate sets are the styled alternatives.

The Rockwood 82 is satin stainless steel in a plain rectangular 8 inch by 16 inch plate, which reads as institutional and is what most offices, schools, hotels and retail spaces use. Where the opening calls for a decorative treatment, Emtek builds push and pull plate sets in three styles: Knoxville, Modern, and the Petal series in lost wax cast bronze. Those are sold as push and pull sets, so one part number covers both faces rather than specifying a push plate and a pull plate separately.

The Rockwood 82 is a plain push plate that screws to the door face with #6 x 5/8 inch oval head sheet metal screws, and it does not interface with an exit device chassis. On the pull side of a door carrying a Detex Value Series exit device, the part built for that interface is the Detex P/PN Series pull plate, which is made for those devices. A face-mounted push plate and a device-specific pull plate are not interchangeable parts.

Two approaches. Standardize on the plate size and mix manufacturers by face: the Rockwood 82 covers the push side at 8 inches by 16 inches in stainless steel meeting ANSI/BHMA J301, and a heavy duty pull plate such as the Ives 8302 with through bolt mounting handles the pull side. Or standardize inside one size family: Delaney offers a matched pair at 4 inch by 16 inch, a push plate and a pull plate, and a second matched pair at 3-1/2 inch by 15 inch. The size-family approach keeps one plate footprint across the facility; the by-face approach lets each side be specified to the load it takes.

That depends on the center-to-center spacing already drilled. The Ives 8303 is offered with 8 inch or 10 inch center-to-center mounting, which covers the two most common commercial pull spacings. The Trimco 1010 uses 5 inch center-to-center, the 1012 and 1013 use 5.5 inch, and the 1014 uses 6 inch. Measure between the existing fastener centers before ordering. The Rockwood 82 push plate is a different case: it is a flat plate fastened with #6 x 5/8 inch oval head sheet metal screws and has no pull spacing to match.

Count one per push face. On single leaf doors that is one plate per door; on a pair of doors pushed from one side, that is two. Because the 82 is offered in a single finish, US32D satin stainless, standardizing across a facility is straightforward: every door gets the same plate and the same #6 by 5/8 inch oval head sheet metal screws, so your stock room carries one part number rather than a finish matrix.

They differ in pull shape and center-to-center spacing. The Trimco 1010 is a cast pull plate with a 5 inch center-to-center pull. The 1012 is a cast tapered heavy duty plate with a 5.5 inch center-to-center pull. The 1013 uses a round pull, also 5.5 inch center-to-center, and the 1014 is a half-round pull at 6 inch center-to-center. Center-to-center is the dimension to confirm against an existing plate if the goal is reusing the fastener locations already in the door. All four are pull plates, so they mount on the pull face rather than replacing a push plate such as the Rockwood 82.