Specifications

Despite the variety of problems we
just listed, there is typically one cause
— an incorrectly hung or operating
door and frame. Using a standard
strike plate, door problems are often
hidden or ignored. If the door
suffers from hinge bind or hinge
sag, has a badly adjusted door closer,
rubs against a threshold or frame, is
not in the same plane as the frame,
etc., the door can still be closed,
latched and locked. Subsequently,
they are not recognized as problems.
That is, until an electric strike is
installed. It’s at this point that a correctly
working and aligned door is critical to
the operation of that door system.
Unfortunately, many installation
problems are either diagnosed too late
(after the strike has been installed) or
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3. On the other end of the
spectrum, a jaw that allows the
hole latch and deadlatch to
enter the keeper makes this lock
easy prey to probing.
4. Rutherford’s Series 7 (left) and Series 2 offer a great degree of
lateral jaw movement to help offset the effects of a badly operating
door system.
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