All of my electronics gear, hand tools, three Solidoodle 4s, one delta, and one home-built coreXY frankenprinter with a Solidoodle Z stage were in there, along with all of my spare parts and the bits needed to reassemble my i3 and my mendelmax. Oof.
I learned something about fire: When it doesn't directly burn something, it rusts the crap out of it, even when I lubricated it in the past. My hand tools got hit pretty bad with soot and rust on oxide-coated components, but my printers...
on two Solidoodles, all six rods were rusted, all bearings showed rust, and every oxide-coated fastener was rust. The delta's rails, carriages, magballs, and fasteners were the same. If it wasn't stainless, it rusted.
This kills the printer.
Weirdly, the SD4 -frames- were good, and the third SD4 had somehow only gotten rust on the Z rods and all the bearings and fasteners. (I swear I kept them lubricated. :B) Side and top panels only show rust where the embers burned the paint off, too. But the insides were also completely coated in a fine, toner-like ash that smelled to high heaven and required acts of God to remove (I still can't get all of it off the SD4 frames, ugh!).
I'm a terrible story writer, but the part I really wanted to share was this:
(please ignore my terrible bed adhesion, this is my first print in a long while haha)
after all the evenings and weekends I've spent since the fire cleaning and reconditioning equipment, I finally got the first SD4 fully operational again. Feels good, even if my bedroom is my lab now for the time being.
Also, a huge mountain of gratitude to Filastruder, who still happens to sell all the bits I need to reclaim my damaged Titan extruders and pretty much the entire delta printer's motion parts. I love that thing almost as much as I love the printer I just finished fixing, haha
tl;dr - Fire ate my stuff, rebuilding everything sucks. Fire is weird. Rust sucks.
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