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Company announcements, certification news and technical notes from Canton Hyland.
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Handing: The One-Letter Answer That Holds Up Orders
Left, right or universal is a single character on an order line and the most common reason a quotation goes back for clarification. It is decided by where the hinges are and which way the door opens, and the two conventions in use disagree with each other.
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The Six Values a Hardware Order Actually Needs
Most enquiries arrive with a model number and a quantity, and most of those go back with a question. Six values decide whether a part can be installed, and an enquiry carrying all six can be quoted the same day.
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Trim Handle or Panic Bar: What the Outside of a Fire Exit Door Needs
A panic bar opens the door from inside. It does nothing for the person outside. The part that lets them in is a separate order line, and getting the two confused is the most common way an exit-door schedule arrives incomplete.
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ANSI Grade 1 or EN 1125: Which Standard Your Exit Device Has to Meet
They are not two grades of the same thing. ANSI/BHMA A156.3 rates an exit device by cycles and force; EN 1125 tests whether a panicking crowd can get out. Which one you need is decided by the country your building is in, not by which sounds stronger.
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Why Aluminium Doors Drop, and What the Lock Case Has to Do With It
A narrow-stile aluminium door that no longer latches has almost never got a broken lock. It has dropped a few millimetres at the far edge, and the lock is simply the first place anyone notices. Here is what actually moves, and which of it is a hardware decision.
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Push Bar or Touch Bar: Which Panic Device Your Door Needs
A push bar pivots and travels; a touch bar depresses flush into its own housing. They cost differently, they fail differently, and only one of them survives a corridor that gets hit by trolleys. Canton Hyland builds the push-bar type across all 42 devices in the range.
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304, 201 or 316: Which Stainless Steel You Are Actually Buying
Three grades look identical in a photograph, cost very differently, and behave nothing alike within sight of the sea. 201 substitutes manganese for nickel and rusts where 304 does not; 316 adds molybdenum and survives where 304 pits. Here is how to tell which one you have been quoted.
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What One Frameless Glass Door Actually Needs
A frameless glass door is not a product, it is an assembly of six or seven parts ordered from three different categories. Buyers quote the handle, forget the floor spring, and discover the over-panel patch on site. Here is the whole list, in the order it gets forgotten.
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The Door Schedule: How Hardware Is Actually Specified
Projects do not buy locks. They buy door types, and each door type is a set of hardware that has to agree with itself. The document that decides this is the door schedule, and it is worth understanding before you quote against one.
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Backset and Centre Distance: How to Read a Mortise Lock Case Number
Two numbers decide whether a lock case fits the door in front of you. They are printed in the model number, and getting them wrong is the most common reason a container of hardware cannot be installed.
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What the Letters After a Model Number Mean
607 PB, 607 AB, 607 SN and 607 BN are the same lock in four finishes. The letters are a finish code and a function code, read from the right, and once you can read them a price list of four hundred lines collapses into about sixty products.