Schlage 03-277 - Sargent LFIC Lever

That's exactly what the Schlage 03-277 is. It's an ND Series lever built for Sargent LFIC (large format interchangeable core) keying rather than a Schlage cylinder, so a facility standardized on Sargent cores keeps one key system across the openings instead of running two. It's a commercial lever, and it comes in four ND lever designs and ten finishes.

Just the lever trim. The 03-277 is lock trim for the ND Series, sold as a replacement part with the function listed as lever only, so you're ordering the lever to go on an ND lock rather than a full chassis-and-latch assembly. If the existing lever is damaged or you're converting an opening's key system over to Sargent cores, this is the piece you buy.

The lever itself is non-handed, and all ND levers are reversible, so you don't order a left-hand or right-hand part. Hand information still matters for two things: cylinder orientation on keyed functions, and the finish of the latchbolt and strike when the lock is going on a reverse bevel door. Get the hand of the opening right even though the lever doesn't care.

Yes. ND Series levers comply with ANSI A117.1 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is why a lever goes on an accessible opening in place of a knob. For a school, clinic, or government facility standardizing hardware, the 03-277 keeps that compliance while putting the opening on Sargent LFIC keying.

Four designs: Athens (ATH), Rhodes (RHO), Sparta (SPA), and Tubular (TLR). Pick the same design already on the adjacent openings and the corridor still reads as one hardware set, even though this particular lever is running Sargent cores instead of Schlage cylinders. Rhodes and Sparta are the squared-off contemporary shapes, Athens is the curved return, Tubular is the plain round bar.

Ten, and they cover most of what's already hanging in commercial buildings: 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. Match the BHMA number on the existing hardware rather than the name, since 626 and 625 both read as chrome but one is satin and one is polished.

626AM, satin chrome antimicrobial, is one of the finish options on the 03-277 lever, and it's available across all four lever designs, Athens, Rhodes, Sparta and Tubular. For a healthcare facility already keyed on Sargent cores, that gets you the touch surface you want on the corridor and patient room doors without breaking the key system or the visual match with the 626 satin chrome hardware elsewhere in the building.

They are not interchangeable, because they are two different parts of the opening. The Schlage 03-277 is an ND Series lever trim built around a Sargent large format interchangeable core, carrying a Lever Only lock function, non-handed, for commercial openings, and it is ordered by lever style and finish - Athens, Rhodes, Sparta, or Tubular, in finishes such as 626 Satin Chrome, 643E Aged Bronze, and 613 Oil Rubbed Bronze. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238, the CAL101 dormitory dead latch, is a dormitory function unit. A lever trim replaces the handle and core side of an existing ND Series lock; a dormitory dead latch is the locking device itself. If the ND lever on the door is worn or the keying is moving to a Sargent core, the 03-277 is the part that changes; the CALDOR238 answers a different requirement entirely.