Schlage 09-506 Outside Lever and Rose Assembly, A Rose, Satin Chrome

The 09-506 is a replacement outside lever and rose assembly for Schlage L Series mortise locks, supplied with an A rose in satin chrome. It's the trim on the outside face of the door, not a complete lock, so you're reusing the existing L Series mortise case and cylinder in the door. Order it by lever design: 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 12 (right or left hand), or 17.

Only for the 12 lever. That design is ordered as either right hand or left hand, so you need to know which way the door swings before you order. The 02, 03, 05, 06, 07 and 17 designs are ordered without a handing call-out. If you're replacing a damaged 12 lever, match the hand of the one coming off the door.

It's built for a 2-3/4 inch backset, which is the standard backset for a commercial mortise lock, so it drops onto an L Series mortise prep without new holes. If your door is prepped for a 2-3/8 inch backset bored (cylindrical) lock, this trim will not line up. Check the backset on the case you're pulling the trim off before ordering.

That's exactly what the 09-506 is for. It's a replacement outside lever and rose assembly, so a bent lever, a worn finish, or a lever design change gets handled without pulling the mortise case out of the door. The case, cylinder and inside trim stay where they are. For property managers, this is the cheaper way to bring a damaged opening back into service and keep the fleet matching.

No - the two parts do different jobs in the door. The Schlage 09-506 is lock trim: an outside lever and A rose assembly for the L Series, ordered by lever design (02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 12 in right hand or left hand, and 17) and cut for a 2-3/4 inch backset. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 is a dormitory dead latch, so it is the latching mechanism and function, not the outside handle and rose that mount over it. A locksmith replacing a bent or worn lever on an existing L Series mortise lock wants the 09-506 trim; the CALDOR238 does not mount in place of it.

Commercial. It's L Series mortise trim, which is the line used on schools, hospitals, offices and multi-family corridors, not residential bored hardware. If you're outfitting a house or an interior residential door with a 2-3/8 inch bored prep, this is the wrong family of part.

No. Function lives in the mortise case, not in the trim. The L Series covers 50 standard mechanical functions plus custom functions, and swapping the outside lever assembly leaves whichever function you have in the door untouched. If you need a different function (say office instead of storeroom), you're changing the case or the lock, not this trim.

Yes. The L Series supports both standard SFIC and FSIC cylinder formats, so the outside lever and rose assembly goes onto a lock keyed either way. Your existing keying stays as it is, since the cylinder is not part of this trim. Locksmiths swapping trim on a masterkeyed building don't need to rekey anything.

Match two things: the lever design number and the rose. The 09-506 uses the A rose in satin chrome, and the lever comes in 02, 03, 05, 06, 07, 12 and 17 designs. Pull one existing lever, read the design off your original hardware schedule or the lock itself, and order the same number so the corridor keeps a consistent look.

Function comes from the lock body, not from the lever trim, so the part that sets dormitory function is the Cal-Royal CALDOR238 dormitory dead latch. The Schlage 09-506 is an outside lever and A rose assembly for the commercial L Series, which supports an expansive list of configurations including 50 standard mechanical functions and both SFIC and FSIC cylinder formats - the function is determined by the L Series lock the trim is fitted to, and the 09-506 is ordered by lever design rather than by function code. Order the 09-506 when the L Series lock is already in the door and you are replacing or changing the outside lever; order the CALDOR238 when you are specifying dormitory function itself.

No, and it's a common mix-up. The Schlage 09-506 is trim only, an outside lever and rose for an L Series mortise lock. The Cal-Royal CALDOR238 CAL101 is a complete dormitory-function dead latch, a whole lock rather than a replacement handle. If your lock body is failing rather than the lever, trim won't fix it.