Plastic Lamy Pens. Interchangeable Parts?

[ShallowJam]

So here's the deal, I received a lamy joy calligraphy set as a christmas present. It came with one cap, one barrel, three grip sections, and three nibs (1.1, 1.5, and 1.9). While I love the pen, I don't really need two 1.1mm nibs (I already owned one) and I find that I don't use the 1.5mm a whole lot either. The set is designed so you can ink up each grip section separately and switch them off so you can easily switch inks or whatever for calligraphy. What I'm wondering is, could I use a barrel and cap from a lamy safari on the grip sections and get another whole pen essentially? I would really like a medium nib (or fine or broad) but I could use the second 1.1mm i have. Does anyone know if the parts are compatible (i know the nibs are) and if so, where can I get them on the cheap? I don't want to pay $20 a piece from lamy USA. Does anyone have a broken safari that I can consume for parts? where would i find broken pens? A broken feed here, a gnarled nib there, a cracked cap here, a cracked barrel there? i dont care if the parts match.

Edited January 7, 2013 by ShallowJam

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

The Lamy Joy parts such as caps and barrels do interchange with the Safari. The nibs interchange too. You can pull all the nibs and save the parts as spares if you want or put the nibs in different Lamy Safari, Al-Star, Joy, Vista, Studio, CP1, or other pens.

 

Dillon

[ShallowJam]

Okay, great. That's the first step. Does anyone know where I would get broken Lanny pens that I could pick for parts?

[twdpens]

Does your joy set have a metal cap or a plastic one?

 

Long ago I listed the compatibility between Safari, Al-Star and joy components. If someone with good search-fu can find the link I will be grateful .

 

HTH,

 

Martin

[twdpens]

Here's the link. Note that when I write "joy" I mean model 11 with the aluminium cap. For model 15 with the plastic cap treat it as a Safari.

 

HTH,

 

Martin

Edited January 7, 2013 by twdpens

[ShallowJam]

Here's the link. Note that when I write "joy" I mean model 11 with the aluminium cap. For model 15 with the plastic cap treat it as a Safari.

 

HTH,

 

Martin

 

Thanks for the link, thats great.

 

I have the plastic joy (red and black) with two extra grips/feeds/nibs. So I need a safari barrel and cap (and maybe nib).

 

Another thought I just had, are there any lamy trading forums? I could just trade some of my extra parts.