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Around 1.5 years back my LAMY 2000 fell nib-first on floor got damaged. Back then I wasn't able to muster the courage in case I end up damaging the nib beyond repair. I put some effort in finding a nibmeister but that didn't go anywhere.

Now that this event is long gone, I tried fixing the nib on my own. The nib tines were off in three ways,

  1. they were misaligned,
  2. they needed tightening, and
  3. the whole nib seemed to be bent in one direction

Here are the before pictures:

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Figure 1: The most problematic damage is the weird warping of the left tine that you can see in the last picture. I didn't take a good frontal photo so you can't see the overall nib bending clearly.

I basically had to use a magnifier, tissues, and a thin metal piece to do something like this from PenBoyRoy. 2k's nibs are hooded and also much smaller than regular nibs to do repairs but I was able to get somewhere. Here are the after pictures:

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Figure 2: There is still a gap between tines that's been hard to fix

While there is still a gap between tines (a bulging convex gap in between) this much fix is working well enough. I tried testing this and have the following observations:

  1. The nib is wetter and has a slight stub like feeling to it. Originally a medium, it has moved a little towards being a broad nib.
  2. There is no misalignment and the smoothness is intact. In fact it feels even better maybe because of the wetness.
  3. The larger convex tine gap interferes with the capillary action sometimes. Specially when I start a new sentence after a minute since the ink film in between might have dried out. This is not a major problem though. I faced this twice in a full page and a little shake solves it.
  4. I think the bounciness has taken some hit because of the bending etc. involved in fixing it.
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Figure 3: Writing test with Diamine Autumn Oak. The ink film in the convex gap is quicker to dry while writing.

I should have done this long back but overall I am happy to get my favorite daily driver back in action.