@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.
Steveg58
@ajsadauskas @Godfrey642 @fuck_cars
There s some really old research out there originality focused around Volvo cars that came to the conclusion that people drive to a constant level of personal risk. Put them in a safer car and their driving will be riskier. This lead to memes about spikes on steering wheels that threaten drivers.
Also many younger people have never seen a police patrol on the roads so they feel that their behaviour carries no risk.
@TDCN @Showroom7561
Two examples from Australian states:
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/hoon-laws
https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Traffic/Cameras/Speed/Hoon-driving
Just a few days ago the news carries pictures of a vintage Holden muscle car being crushed because the owner had been driving at 250 Kph in a 110 Kph zone.
@Shalaska
Ive just pulled out my one Lamy converter.
The converter in the photo does not look like a propriety Lamy converter, It looks like an International Standard converter. In which case that would account for leakage and poor performance.
Lamy. most of the Japanese, Shaeffer and a few other manufacturers use propriety cartridges and converters that are not interchangeable with other brands.
Some Chinese pen models claim to use Standard International cartridges but they are sufficiently out of dimension that only their own products will work.