spending most of my holiday weekend repairing a riding mower

I replaced a dead battery and the 20a fuse we blew jump starting the mower.

Removed and cleaned the air filter. Didn't replace because it wasn't that bad.

Removed and replaced the spark plugs. Old ones had some buildup of smoke/carbon. They didn't look as bad as the demo photos for "replace", but they also didn't look as good as the demo photos for "still ok". Just went ahead and set the gaps on the new ones and installed.

I finally got the mower to start when I had tightened the cable for the throttle and choke, and then fiddled with the choke plate (air filter removed again so I could see it), but it ran unevenly, and the throttle wasn't working correctly. I had overtightened the cable, and had to readjust. Had it purring like one of our cats, but ran out of daylight. I'll have to finish mowing today.

Credit to the wife for a) trying to mow while I was at work on Saturday so that we could just have fun together the rest of this weekend (the best laid plans!), and b) keeping me supplied with ice water while I was working, and c) simultaneously researching on another device to assist in troubleshooting.

As soon as I finish a few things, it's off to finish the mowing.

@mustangfrank1 I'm going to address this in a different order than what you said/asked because there are some misconceptions that need clearing up.

Keeping the site private will not grow the site

WAATGM isn't private. WATGMA, the child sub, is because it has migrated to forums.red only.

WAATGM has been restricted to 18+ for the past several years in an attempt to stay ahead of any attempts at banning or quarantining the sub. That can keep newbies from finding it as easily, but we (the WAATGM mod team) thought it worth it.

until the Reddit Mods closes that one down as well

Important distinction: you meant reddit admins. I was a mod at reddit for WAATGM and WATGMA. Mods are volunteers who own and run the various subreddits.

Admins are actual paid employees of reddit, and they fucking suck. They're the ones who permanently suspended me and @polishknight, they're the ones who banned the MGTOW subs, and they're the ones who quarantined TRP.

[creating different subreddits to bring in more people]

It won't work, most of us don't have time for that (I've barely been on here lately, and I have many conversations I haven't replied to yet from the past couple of weeks), and if reddit admins catch on, they'll ban all the subs for "ban evasion" like they did the MGTOW subs that weren't even connected to the original /r/MGTOW.

I've been intending to take it up with the rest of the WAATGM mod team that maybe we should remove the 18+ setting from the sub to get more visibility. We might discuss it privately, but this (changing the setting) probably won't happen very soon.