Catalyst Force Entry Door
Direct Mount
Crush Prop Straps - Standard with every door.
Repurpose. Reignite. Reactivate.
What was once useful and challenging is now once again. Training towers and shoot houses get predictable, even when switched around. The doors and windows get jaded and temperamental and need an overhaul.
The Direct Mount door fits into any preexisting structure. Wood / Stick-built houses, cinder block / CMU, concrete, conex boxes, or Drager flat plate. Whichever the material, our door will fit either on the outside of the rough opening or inside of an opening with the dimensions: 46.25” W x 82” H.
Arrives vertical on one pallet. Packaged with two sets of flashing and specific mounting plates for the structure it is being installed. Simply bolt on the C6 Lock Mechanism into the door. Raise and slide into the door frame. Lag screw for wood structure. Wedge based anchors for CMU, concrete. Welded “H” frame for conex boxes and flat plate containers followed by bolt-on plates. Simply call out your structure and RO and we will provide you the right mounting components for your Direct Mount door. We can even provide custom sized flashing if your RO is multiple inches larger.
Versatility
Locking Combinations: 1-3 dowels plus 2 x 2 wood block options with no need for a wedge to stabilize to maintain consistency. Conduit pipe fits in dowel holes, which is ideal for outward opening / commercial door evolutions.
Lock & Chain capable
Crush Prop Straps - Included Standard - for mounting real commercial doors to practice crushing edge
Additional Props bolt on/off:
Increase the capabilities of the Catalyst Force Entry Door by UPGRADING and switching out the standard mechanical breaching lock mechanism to handle shotgun, kinetic breaching (KBT), explosive and shape charge breaching tactics:
Catalyst Force Entry - Stand Alone before tune up at “The Brickyard” aka “Douglasville” outside of Sacramento, CA. This door underwent classes, academies, and training events for well over 5 years (from what we could tally) before it needed some rehab. As you can see, the lock mechanism and strike plates, along with the alignment of the door is still structurally sound, even the wood door itself survived multiple miss hits.
Durability
The Catalyst Force Entry Door is built to last, plain and simple. It is designed to be maintained by your department without the headache of purchasing more parts from us or scheduling service.
AR450 - The Strike Plates run top to bottom the full length of the door allowing the ability to force or strike the door wherever there is YELLOW.
Flex Tech Jambs - our proprietary design and CAD tested jambs allow for realistic flex (and consistent bounce back) for the realism you would experience in a door.
Marine Grade Wood - 7-layer laminate sealed marine grade (“boat”) wood allow for flex and feel of a real door while protection against constant water flow.
Total Number of Evolutions - a wood door strategically reinforced with AR450 is longer lasting than metal, the following doors experienced close to 25,000 forcible entry evolutions before needing service.
No moving parts - A wrench and impact gun for only 2 sized nuts & bolts plus a rubber mallet is all it takes to maintain gap and tightness.
Consistency
Every evolution can be set up the same way every time for thousands of entries. In other words, the C6 Academy Lock Break Mechanism does not need any wedges/consumables applied in addition to the prescribed 2x2 wood block, 3/4” dowels, or 3/4” metal conduit. Thereby, our lock mechanism can be utilized for testing and certification.
The Flex Tech jambs provide a realistic, consistent flex with each evolution. They will give like a real door and flex back to their original state thousands of times over. In fact, after 10 years, we have yet to experience seeing nor hearing about a jamb NOT flexing back as it did when it first came off our production line.
Realistic
The result of the previous value-adds of the Catalyst Force Entry Door is that it is the most realistic training door in the market. Through the combination of its design, materials and exhaustive ability to stage out every evolution in your area of operation, the CFED stops being a simulator and becomes a real world replica to ensure the realism needed to be proficient in both tools and skills while on a call.
Materials & Design
Allow for a durability, long-lasting, consistent product that you can rely on to recreate the scenario needing training every time
Functionality
The wood door flexes like a real door while retaining its durability
The Flex Tech jambs react like a real residential and commercial door
The lock mechanism is consistent in housing the consumables and reacts the same each time based on its load
Training Evolution Example:
Add/subtract the props needed to recreate the sequence of events and skills to be trained
Trust the lock mechanism to be set the same each time for testing and standards maintenance
Set a real outward opening commercial door with our Crush Prop to effectively cam and crush a metal door. Only then do you get to link a real door to a training door in the strategic sequence of breaching an outward opening commercial door not found in any other door prop.
Move and stage out the door alone or inside building to fit the training scenario
Use our wheel system to add plywood/sheet-rocked walls for confined space training. Add a tarp and smoke machine to create sensory deprivation training.
Result - A training environment that tests all skills, senses, and level of ability to make every first responder better regardless of experience or years on shift.