Schlage 03-255 - Yale 6-Pin IC Lever

Lever trim only. The 03-255 is an ND Series lever prepped for a Yale 6-pin interchangeable core, sold as a replacement part, so the lock chassis and latch have to already be in the door or be ordered alongside it. The trim carries no function of its own. Whether the opening ends up passage, storeroom or classroom is decided by the ND chassis behind the lever, not by this part.

Yes, the 03-255 is built for a Yale 6-pin interchangeable core. That is the point of the part: if your building is already keyed in Yale 6-pin IC, you can put ND Series levers on the doors and keep every opening on the existing key system. Cores in an IC system pull and drop in with a control key rather than by disassembling the lock, so rekeying a door is a one minute job. The core itself is separate from the lever trim.

The ND lever is non-handed and reverses in the field, so one part covers a left or a right hand door. Hand still gets asked for, and for two practical reasons: on keyed functions it sets the orientation the cylinder sits in, and on a reverse bevel door it determines the finish of the latchbolt and strike. If you are ordering for a run of openings, walk the doors and record the hand of each one before you place the order.

The ND lever trim complies with ANSI A117.1 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lever shape is what earns it: the handle operates with a closed fist or a forearm, with no tight grasping, pinching or wrist twisting required. Knob trim on the same opening would not satisfy that requirement, which is why lever trim is the standard swap on accessible routes in commercial buildings.

You pick them on different criteria. The Schlage 03-255 is specified by lever style and finish: Athens, Rhodes, Sparta, and Tubular levers, in 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, all of it commercial trim for a Yale 6-pin IC lever. That is how you carry one lever look and one finish across a run of ND openings. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is the CAL101 dormitory dead latch and is selected on its dormitory function, so it answers a question about how the door is meant to lock rather than about matching lever shape to the doors around it.

626AM, an antimicrobial version of satin chrome, and it is offered across all four ND lever designs: Athens, Rhodes, Sparta and Tubular. A facility that specifies antimicrobial trim on patient room and corridor doors can stay on the same 03-255 Yale 6-pin IC lever it uses elsewhere in the building and change nothing but the finish code, so the key system and the lever design stay uniform through the whole facility.

They are not interchangeable, because they are two different kinds of part. The Schlage 03-255 is ND Series lock trim with a Yale 6-pin IC lever function, supplied as lever only and non-handed, so it goes onto a lock chassis that is already in the door. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is the CAL101 dormitory dead latch, a dormitory function unit. If the chassis and core in the opening are sound and the lever is what needs to change, the 03-255 is the part that does that job. If the whole lock is coming out and the opening calls for a dormitory function, the CALDOR238 is the unit to look at.

The 03-255 does not set the function of the opening. It is ND Series lever trim with a Yale 6-pin IC lever function, supplied as lever only, so the locking behavior comes from the chassis and core it mounts to rather than from the trim itself. For a door where the requirement is written as dormitory, the Cal-Royal CALDOR238 CAL101 dormitory dead latch carries a dormitory function. Where the doors already run ND chassis and only the levers are being changed out, the 03-255 keeps the existing function in place.