What did you do in your garage today..?

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Sunday Rider said:
Hopefully I can pass the shovel to the kids when they bury me.
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For the Terry Pratchett fans:
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation... but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.
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I epoxied a bit driver extension into a hardwood dowel handle yesterday to make a custom, perfectly sized bit driver. I've got plenty of plastic-handled ones, but wood just feels right in the hand.
 
Bobo said:
Are we talking about a screw driver?
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Indeed! Although you can use it for all sorts of tools. Whatever cranks your hog, so to speak. Here's yesterday's bit driver beside a micro-ratchet that I gave the same treatment last year. I've been assured that 5 and half inches is perfectly adequate for bodywork fasteners.
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Yesterday was Steering bearings and the front end of business for a lowering kit on buddy's F800GSA...

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Front off
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New bearing installed on the thingy
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Home made race setting tool in action
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Shiny new upper race...
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Shiny new lower race..
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Changed the fork springs and juice, but... No pics

Today... 'Pulled the rear shock out so as to swap the spring
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Not as exciting as @Gaoler , I changed the front suspension fluid. Some Honda ST1100 have drain screws at the bottom of the forks; thankfully mine does, so I don’t have to take the forks off the bike to change the fluid. The left side handles suspension and the right side does damping duties. The left fluid was smelly and grey, while the right was pristine red like the day it went in. This was 16,000 km ago.
I used Honda HP5 High Performance which says it replaced SS-7M. The new stuff looked watery so I wasn’t sure it would work as well.
Took it to my favourite nearby roads in this rain but it felt good. Good feedback and no bottoming out.
 
I broke a hydraulic fitting on a tractor and puked its guts out? Does that count? Hard parts will only be a couple bucks. Fluid will Sadly be $500 or more.
 
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