Schlage 03-234 - Corbin KIL Lever

Lever only. The 03-234 is a replacement lever for Schlage ND Series locks, so it covers the trim on the door and not the chassis, latch or strike. It is a commercial part, and you order it when the lock body is sound and the lever is worn, broken, or being changed to a different style or finish.

KIL is key-in-lever, meaning the lever is prepped to carry a cylinder rather than being a blank lever for a passage or privacy opening. The Corbin part of the designation identifies whose key-in-lever cylinder it is set up for. So the 03-234 is the ND Series lever for a keyed opening running Corbin cylinders. If the building is keyed to a different manufacturer's system, specify a lever prepped for that cylinder instead.

The lever itself is non-handed and every ND lever is reversible, so it will go on either swing. Hand still matters for the rest of the order: Schlage calls for hand information to get cylinder orientation right on keyed functions, and to get the correct finish on the latchbolt and strike where the lock is going on a reverse bevel door. Work out the hand from the door swing before placing the order even though the lever is not hand-specific.

Two things have to match: lever style and finish. The 03-234 comes in Athens (ATH), Rhodes (RHO), Sparta (SPA) and Tubular (TLR) styles. Finishes run 605 Bright Brass, 606 Satin Brass, 612 Satin Bronze, 613 Oil Rubbed Bronze, 619 Satin Nickel, 622 Matte Black, 625 Bright Chrome, 626 Satin Chrome, 626AM Satin Chrome Antimicrobial and 643E Aged Bronze. Take the style name and the BHMA finish number off the existing hardware or its submittal, carry both across, and the replacement reads as the same door.

626AM, Satin Chrome Antimicrobial, is one of the finishes the 03-234 lever is offered in, and it is available across all four lever styles, Athens, Rhodes, Sparta and Tubular. That lets a facility put the antimicrobial finish on patient and clinical areas while keeping the same lever style on the rest of the openings in standard 626 Satin Chrome.

Schlage states the ND lever line complies with ANSI A117.1 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The reason a lever qualifies where a knob does not is that ADA requires door hardware operable without tight grasping, pinching or twisting of the wrist, and the 03-234 is a lever. That makes it the right shape of trim when an existing building is being brought up to accessible standards and the knobs are coming off.

Different parts, not substitutes. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is a CAL101 dormitory dead latch, a latching device with a dormitory function. The Schlage 03-234 is replacement lever trim for an ND Series lock. If what failed on the door is the lever, the CALDOR238 will not replace it, and if you are changing the way the opening locks, the 03-234 will not do that either.

They are not interchangeable, because they sit at different points in the opening. The Schlage 03-234 Corbin KIL lever is ND Series lock trim with a Lever Only function, supplied as a replacement part, so it restores the handle side of an ND lock that is already hung in the door. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is a dormitory dead latch, a latching device carrying a dormitory function. Ordering the CALDOR238 when the lever is what broke leaves you with a latch and no ND trim, and ordering the 03-234 when the opening needs a dormitory function leaves you with a lever and no dormitory latching device.

For lever replacement on ND openings, the Schlage 03-234 Corbin KIL lever is the ND Series trim replacement part, and it is non-handed, so a single stocked part covers doors of either hand. It is offered in Rhodes, Sparta, Athens and Tubular lever styles, in finishes including 626 satin chrome and 626AM satin chrome antimicrobial, so a spares program can be matched to whatever finish and lever style is already running through the building. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is a dormitory dead latch, a device that sets the opening's function rather than a lever for an ND lock, so it belongs to a different line item in the stock plan.