I have a great pen from lamy that I used for a could have years and really enjoyed. I found it a delight to write with and found it more consistent than ball point pens. Then I ran out of the prefilled ink cartridges it came with. I grabbed a refillable cartridge and some waterman ink and it has been downhill from there. I have two pens, not sure what the other one is, but neither seem to be able to write at all with the refills. They leak more often, constantly seem to dry out, and I have ended up going back to sharpie sgels because I need my pens to write when I need to write.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need better refill cartridges and if so can you recommend one, or are the cartridges really so much better? Or is there maintenance I am supposed to preform on the nib that I have neglected that could be causing my issues? Thanks for any advice, I would love to get back to using these pens.
@Shalaska
There s no general reason for the difficulties you are experiencing. Many people, including myself, have used Lamy converters without any issues.
I'm assuming you have an actual Lamy converter? Pens can be very sensitive to small variations in the connection.
Remember that if you are filling the converter through the nib then the nib and feed will be saturated with ink. It will either need to be cleaned off or else you should withdraw the pen from the ink before you complete the last couple of millimetres of piston movement. This will allow any overload of ink in the feed to be sucked into the converter.
It is possible that the converter is faulty or damaged in some way or a slight mould fault during pen manufacture is preventing the converter from seating properly.
If you deal with a local pen store then take the pen to them and describe the problem and they may well be able to help. It is hard to diagnose these faults if you don't have enough experience to recognise differences to normal conditions.