Schlage 03-236 - Yale 7-Pin FSIC Lever

Just the trim. The 03-236 is an ND Series replacement lever with a lever-only function, so it covers the handle side and not the chassis, latch or strike. It is the part to order when a lever is bent, worn, or being changed to a different style on an ND lock that is otherwise sound. If you are doing a full opening, you need the complete lock, not this trim.

That is exactly what this lever is built around. The 03-236 is the Yale 7-Pin FSIC version of the ND lever, FSIC meaning a full size interchangeable core in Yale's 7-pin format, so an opening trimmed with it stays on your existing Yale 7-pin master key system instead of adding a second keyway to the building. The reverse is worth saying plainly: if your cylinders are Schlage keyed, this is the wrong lever, and you want the ND lever prepped for the cylinder format you already carry.

No. Every ND lever is reversible, and the 03-236 is non-handed, so one part covers left and right hand openings and a maintenance shop can stock a single lever for the whole building. Hand still matters elsewhere on a keyed opening: it sets cylinder orientation, and on a reverse bevel door it drives the finish of the latchbolt and strike. For a straight lever swap on an existing ND lock, the reversible design means what is on the shelf fits either swing.

Three choices settle the order: lever style, cylinder format and finish. Style is either SPA Sparta or RHO Rhodes. Cylinder format is Yale 7-Pin FSIC across the board, so there is nothing to decide there beyond confirming that is your keying. Finish is where most of the selection sits, and both lever styles are offered in the full finish range, so you are not forced into a style by the finish you need to match.

ND levers comply with ANSI A117.1 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. That is the practical reason a lever goes on a commercial opening rather than a knob: it operates without tight grasping, pinching, or twisting of the wrist. The 03-236 is commercial trim, so on a government, healthcare, education or multi-family job it holds the accessible operation requirement while you keep the opening on Yale 7-pin keying.

Ten finishes: 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. Both Sparta and Rhodes are offered in every one of them, so a property manager can standardize a single finish across a portfolio and still run different lever styles by building or by area. 626 satin chrome is the finish most commercial openings are already on if you are trying to match without a record of what was originally specified.

626AM, satin chrome antimicrobial, is available on both the Sparta and Rhodes ND lever, so a facility can put the antimicrobial finish on high touch openings such as patient rooms and corridors and hold plain 626 satin chrome everywhere else without the two reading as different hardware. Both are the same lever with the same Yale 7-pin FSIC keying, so it changes nothing about how the opening is keyed or maintained.

The Schlage 03-236 carries a Lever Only function, so the locking behavior at the opening comes from the chassis and latch the lever is mounted to; what the 03-236 supplies is the ND Series lever and the Yale 7-Pin FSIC cylinder interface, non-handed so it works on either swing. For an opening written as dormitory function, the Cal-Royal CALDOR238, the CAL101 dormitory dead latch, is built to that function. Both parts can show up on the same job: the 03-236 where an ND Series lever is being replaced on hardware already in the door, the CALDOR238 where the dormitory latching itself is what the door calls for.