Lamy Safari - Newbie Question

[ShockDub]

Whoa! As others said, I would definately keep this nib and let Lamy QC know about this. Maybe they can ship a new nib for free without giving up your "slit-less" nib.

[lynxcat]

I asked my 11 year old daughter "what's wrong with this picture?" and she caught it immediately. Hmmmm.

 

i tried something similar, to see if my spouse had picked up anything about my hobby by observation.

 

heard in my household: "well that one's obviously a male then, if it doesn't have a slit."

 

i may be the only fountain pen geek in the house, but i'm clearly not the only filthy-minded foulmouth...

[ProfMHB]

Just a quick update: I have received my second Lamy Safari, and it wrote instantaneously after inserting the cartridge. I hope to contact Lamy today with the photographic evidence of the bad nib.

[risingsun]

Hmm Lamy's QC is infamously bad and seems to be a lot worse than any Chinese manufacturer, so I would hazard a guess that it's quite a common occurance with Lamy.

 

That statement is a new one on me... I have found my Lamy pens to be far better than most other manufacturers, right out of the box, including several Pelikans.

[WateryFlow]

 

That statement is a new one on me... I have found my Lamy pens to be far better than most other manufacturers, right out of the box, including several Pelikans.

From here, friends, acquaintances, google, and my own Lamys it's pretty clear to me that their QC is somewhat on the spotty side. YMMV.

Edited July 31, 2014 by WateryFlow

[KBeezie]

Well obviously it's a male...

 

 

Man that's crazy lol.

 

PS: I wonder where the $7 Lamy nibs on ebay are coming from, from the retail shops I've seen between $9 (ie: ink drop members on select ones) to $13 for them.

[Christi0469]

The may have been able to pass the dip test but the QC person must have been half asleep not to notice that the nib was that obviously defective. Isn't there a visual component to the Lamy QC testing? Whoever wipes down the pen aften testing should have noticed it as well.

 

Maybe this is the work of a disgruntled employee.

[KBeezie]

The may have been able to pass the dip test but the QC person must have been half asleep not to notice that the nib was that obviously defective. Isn't there a visual component to the Lamy QC testing? Whoever wipes down the pen aften testing should have noticed it as well.

 

Maybe this is the work of a disgruntled employee.

 

Or not every single nib is dipped and visually inspected by a person but rather by a machine.

 

Sort of like how Pilot may do it ( @ 7:40 )

 

 

Though you would think at least near the end whoever puts the thing together would have noticed lol. But since it's not exactly a friction fit on the Lamy, I suspect that could be done by machine too, and that only one out of every few hundred are checked by a person as a means of quality controlling that 'lot'.

[Christi0469]

Ideally every pen should work beautifully out of the box. Sadly this isn't the case. I always feel bad about the inconvenience to the customer but hopefully he (or she) can look back on this and be amused by the absurdity of it all. Personally I find it hilarious. Even my husband who has absolutely no interest in fountain pens identified the flaw in the picture immediately.

[bogiesan]

You can get a Lamy nib from lots of places but if you had purchased the pen from, say, Goulet, they'd at have looked at it before shipping it. Buy your nib from Goulet. Buy your next Lamy from them, too.

[bardiir]

This is rather strange. Loamy doesn't test pens with a machine. Every single pen gets inked up and adjusted. I'm unsure of how the hell this could have passed. Maybe threw the failing nib into the passing bucket by mistake. But that testing is the reason why every lamy pen produces blue water when flushed brand new. It's been inked up in the factory.

[Gaslight]

This is rather strange. Loamy doesn't test pens with a machine. Every single pen gets inked up and adjusted. I'm unsure of how the hell this could have passed. Maybe threw the failing nib into the passing bucket by mistake. But that testing is the reason why every lamy pen produces blue water when flushed brand new. It's been inked up in the factory.

 

Where do you got that info from? Of course they test with a machine! There are videos from the factory where you can see the testing machine.

 

A number of pens sits in a jig and the jig moves them across a rotating paper drum while a microfone checks for unusual sounds. Pen which don't pass the sound test will be hand-checked, otherwise they go to packaging...

 

Only german company which checks every pen by hand is Mont Blanc AFAIK....

[RMN]

I am a bit baffled by the USD prices for replacement nibs. Here in Europe the are listed for 4.95 Euro....

 

 

D.ick

[KBeezie]

I am a bit baffled by the USD prices for replacement nibs. Here in Europe the are listed for 4.95 Euro....

 

 

D.ick

 

Probably because they are made in Europe, like trying to get Diamine there vs the US price, or Noodler's here vs getting it there.

 

I did a little search on eBay and the ones that come up as 5-7$ are Hero nibs made to fit lamy... I didn't even know the Hero cloned nibs could fit a Lamy.

[wastelanded]

I paid 3 Euro for an OM nib on German eBay.

Edited August 1, 2014 by wastelanded

[ProfMHB]

In case anyone is interested, I sent an email to Lamy customer service, along with photographic evidence. The response was quick but negative: Since they did not sell me the pen directly, they declined to replace the nib outright. Instead, they encouraged me to send the pen to them for warranty repair. I have decided simply to replace the nib and keep the defective one as an interesting souvenir.