Schlage Commercial A Series A201-399 - Hub & Cap, Outside

The A201-399 is the outside hub and cap assembly for Schlage A Series commercial locksets, sold as a replacement part on its own. The hub is the internal drive the outside knob or lever spindle turns to retract the latch; the cap is the trim piece that closes the assembly off against the rose. No knob, lever, latch, or chassis is included, and it is not a complete lockset. Order it when you are rebuilding an A Series lock you already have on the door, not when you need a whole new lock.

Yes, and it matters more than buyers expect. The cap is exposed trim, so a mismatched one is visible on the door. The A201-399 outside hub and cap comes in 605 bright brass, 612 satin bronze, 613 oil rubbed bronze, and 626 satin chrome. Those numbers are the BHMA finish codes stamped or specified on the lock you are repairing, so match the code rather than the description, because bronze and chrome families look close on a screen and nothing alike on the door.

That symptom points at the outside hub, which is exactly what the A201-399 replaces. When the hub is worn or broken, the spindle turns freely and never drives the retractor, so the knob spins and the latch stays out. Before ordering, confirm the lock is an A Series commercial cylindrical lockset and that the failure is on the outside, not the inside. If both sides feel loose, the outside hub and cap alone will not restore the lock.

Outside only. The A201-399 is the outside hub and cap, so one of these rebuilds the exterior side of an A Series lockset. If the inside side has failed too, that is a separate part and you will need to order it as well. On a fleet of doors where several locks are showing the same wear, order per side and per finish rather than assuming one part number covers a whole lock.

No. This is a commercial A Series part, and Schlage's residential knobsets use a different chassis with their own internal components. Fitting a commercial hub into a residential lock is not a swap that works. If the lock you are repairing is a light duty residential knob from a house or an apartment interior door, the A201-399 is the wrong part.

Genuine Schlage. The A201-399 outside hub and cap is a certified Schlage part built to the same materials as the original assembly, which is what keeps a rebuilt lock behaving like the rest of the A Series openings in the building. That matters on an institutional or multi-family site where the locks were standardized on purpose, since an aftermarket internal part reintroduces variation into hardware you deliberately made identical.