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Yesterday I received in the mail a brand new Lamy 2000. I haven't worked with one before, but the piston seemed really tight and much harder to move up and down than I would have expected. By comparison, the pistons on the TWSBI 580's I recently got were very smooth. So, based on some reading and also viewing the Goulet video about lubricating the Lamy 2000 barrel, I used the silicon grease (more like oil) that came with the TWSBI pens, and that fixed it up really nicely. Now the pen is flushed and lubricated and ready for ink, which I hope to secure today during a lunchtime excursion.

 

Edit -- First impressions after inking. I got the Extra Fine nib after reading many reviews and forum notes and figuring that would suit me best. Since I'm at work I don't have any good paper, though in hindsight I should have brought some. Anyway, I took my first strokes on copy paper and yellow legal paper. The Lamy blue ink is a nice shade for me. The lines are decent width with just minor feathering. But what I'm most happy about after all is finally getting to experience the dreaded sweet spot, and all I can say is that for this particular pen I wouldn't even had guessed it has one. Under a loupe, the nib does look like what I would expect from an EF. But it writes smoothly and actually seems pretty forgiving with rotation. Maybe it's just the absorbency of the common paper. In summary, I'm quite pleased and looking forward to getting a lot of use out of this pen.

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Ink 'em if you got 'em!

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I thought you would. I love the Lamy 2000 EF I recently bought.

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Hi,

 

Would you be able to use the pen's piston system without using lube?

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Yesterday I received in the mail a brand new Lamy 2000. I haven't worked with one before, but the piston seemed really tight and much harder to move up and down than I would have expected. By comparison, the pistons on the TWSBI 580's I recently got were very smooth. So, based on some reading and also viewing the Goulet video about lubricating the Lamy 2000 barrel, I used the silicon grease (more like oil) that came with the TWSBI pens, and that fixed it up really nicely. Now the pen is flushed and lubricated and ready for ink, which I hope to secure today during a lunchtime excursion.

 

Edit -- First impressions after inking. I got the Extra Fine nib after reading many reviews and forum notes and figuring that would suit me best. Since I'm at work I don't have any good paper, though in hindsight I should have brought some. Anyway, I took my first strokes on copy paper and yellow legal paper. The Lamy blue ink is a nice shade for me. The lines are decent width with just minor feathering. But what I'm most happy about after all is finally getting to experience the dreaded sweet spot, and all I can say is that for this particular pen I wouldn't even had guessed it has one. Under a loupe, the nib does look like what I would expect from an EF. But it writes smoothly and actually seems pretty forgiving with rotation. Maybe it's just the absorbency of the common paper. In summary, I'm quite pleased and looking forward to getting a lot of use out of this pen.

 

Very much the same for me, though I have not greased the piston, and I filled it with Sailor Souten, 'cause I saw a YouTube EF demonstrated with that ink. :)

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Hi,

 

Would you be able to use the pen's piston system without using lube?

 

 

I'm far from an expert, but if I had ignored it and loaded it with ink it probably would have worked. And perhaps the ink would have provided some amount of lubrication to make the piston operate more smoothly. But what I would have been concerned about, though I'm just speculating, is that an insufficient greasing may have led to a less optimal seal, and maybe some ink could have migrated past the piston and leaked out of the pen.

Ink 'em if you got 'em!

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I think it's likely that lubricating the piston will enhance the life of the seal.

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Congrats on you new pen! I got a Lamy 2000 a few weeks ago and I love it. Mine is a fine nib. It has Sailor Sky High in in it at the moment. I love writing with it. Enjoy!

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