Filling A 70's Lamy

[treaves]

I just purchased this 1970's NOS Lamy CP1 silver pen. In has a squeeze converter. It doesn't seem to work.

 

In the photo, notice how it is not flush with the main plastic unit; that is as far as it goes on. When I squeeze the converter to suck in ink, it sucks some in, and when I squeeze again, it come out around the converter end. I'm going to ask the seller if it is the original converter, or what.

 

Does anyone know anything about this? Would anyone know if I can use a modern converter? The brand new CP1 I have is larger diameter, and the silver barrel will not fit over the new converter.

 

Any help appreciated.

[Mr.Rene]

I just purchased this 1970's NOS Lamy CP1 silver pen. In has a squeeze converter. It doesn't seem to work.

 

In the photo, notice how it is not flush with the main plastic unit; that is as far as it goes on. When I squeeze the converter to suck in ink, it sucks some in, and when I squeeze again, it come out around the converter end. I'm going to ask the seller if it is the original converter, or what.

 

Does anyone know anything about this? Would anyone know if I can use a modern converter? The brand new CP1 I have is larger diameter, and the silver barrel will not fit over the new converter.

 

Any help appreciated.

Press the converter´s bar several times, is a kind of aerometric filler converter with plastic sac, you can use the current lamy converter also, the piston filler system.

enjoy your pen,

René

[treaves]

I'm sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear, but I'm pretty sure I had stated:

 

a: when pressing bar, ink leaks from connection of the converter and the pen

b: the body of this pen will not go over the converter on my brand new CP1

Edited December 4, 2012 by treaves

[sirksael]

This doesn't look to me as an original converter, the original Lamy press converter looked different.

 

You may have a bit of trouble finding a converter that works, depending on whether your pen has the old CP1 format or the new one. See this topic on FPN about the same subject: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/66328-identifying-a-lamy/

 

A Lamy cartridge will work in any case.

[treaves]

Thanks for the info. I can not seem to find any photo of the original squeeze converters. If anyone has a link, I'd appreciate it.

[toymachine]

Anyone know the model number of that old Lamy aerometric converter? I'm looking for more info on it and don't know what to look up!

[soapytwist]

I would hazard a guess that the converter possibly an earlier 'International' size and your CP1 only takes Lamy proprietary sized cartridges (I also have one and they are thinner than the standard CP1). Lamy started out with International and then switched to their own size sometime in the seventies. Try looking at Jan's 1979 catalogue (your's is the Model 53):

 

1979 LAMY Fachhandels Katalog by Jan Frišman, on Flickr

[LYTH]

I got the same. A current Lamy cartridge fits on it. Enjoy your pen !

[Honeybadgers]

are you trying to use the lamy converter with the little "lugs" meant for the safari and its ilk?

 

Because the CP-1 uses different one that doesn't have those lugs. If you're using the former, and it's catching on those little plastic nubbies, switch to the black lamy converter.