Jump to content

Lamy 1.1 Inconsistant Feed


Ste_S

Recommended Posts

I have a new Lamy Al Star with a 1.1 nib with an inconsistant feed.

 

It's a dry-er pen overall, but with a Lamy Blue cartridge the ink had consistant flow.

With a convertor and Montblanc Oyster Grey, the flow is inconsistant. Dark and wet after filling or pushing ink through the feed, light and dry otherwise.

 

I've had the nib and feed out and cleaned with dish soap, and flushed dish soap/water through the convertor.

I'll try another ink as I remember Stephen Brown off of Youtube had problems with Oyster Grey, and I'll flush the pen again.

 

Anything else I can try ?

Edited by Ste_S
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 5
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Ste_S

    3

  • ac12

    2

  • Randal6393

    1

Top Posters In This Topic

Would put Lamy Blue in the convertor and see if the problem persists. Also try Montblanc Oyster Grey in a cartridge. (Syringe time!)

 

Best of luck,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

My detective work so far has deduced the following :-

 

1. I'm stupid. I'd inserted the Lamy converter (Z24, with the bumps on the side) the wrong way so it didn't click into place. Not used to cartridge/converter pens, honest !

2. The air bubble is slow moving and needs shaking to move from the feed end to the piston end of the converter. I guess the air bubble sitting over the feed was causing the flow problems. Duff converter, or something I can fix ?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Not much you can do about the air bubble.

I had to open my joy often to tap the converter and get the air bubble to move to the back of the converter.

I now store the joy horizontal or nib down, to prevent the air bubble from going to the front of the converter.

 

At some point, I plan to put a stainless steel ball into the converter to act as an agitator and break the surface tension that holds the ink at the back of the converter. But that is a project for later.

 

However about the dry feed.

I found that both of my 1.1 nibs were are little on the dry side.

I 'carefully' lifted the tines, a tiny bit at a time, measuring with some brass shims to determine the spacing I created. This increased the ink flow for my 1.1 nibs.

Edited by ac12

San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

www.SFPenShow.com

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think the air bubble should be more free moving. I've not had problems so far with non c/c pens, and they work in the same principle - ink goes down, air goes back up. Gravity should be enough to drop the ink down to the feed, forcing the air upwards I should think ?

 

Anyhoo, pen is writing with a nice juicy wet line with Montblanc Royal Blue. I'll put this down to user error for now :blush:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

I think the air bubble should be more free moving. I've not had problems so far with non c/c pens, and they work in the same principle - ink goes down, air goes back up. Gravity should be enough to drop the ink down to the feed, forcing the air upwards I should think ?

 

Anyhoo, pen is writing with a nice juicy wet line with Montblanc Royal Blue. I'll put this down to user error for now :blush:

 

The movement or not of the air bubble depends on the ink.

Some inks are thick enough or have enough surface tension that the air bubble can't move.

 

It may also have to do with the converter material, because I do not remember ever having the air bubble not moving with a cartridge. I may have to experiment with putting the problem ink into a cartridge and see if the air bubble moves or not.

San Francisco Pen Show - August 28-30, 2020 - Redwood City, California

www.SFPenShow.com

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33501
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26627
    5. jar
      jar
      26101
  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o
  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More
  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...