jgreco
Resident Grinch
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First of all I'm sorry we are way off topic, this will be my last posting off point. I thought about Harbor Freight as I drove past it today but Sears still honors life time damage to sockets, ratchets, and most tools, and they are having a serious sale.
That'd be nice if Sears existed in a useful form anymore. Our local Sears are all gone, and even the ones in Chicago (home of Sears) are largely vanished. Craftsman as a brand has been sold off. Ace won't do replacements the way Sears did, where you could just walk in with a random tool and get a replacement. Stanley is talking about requiring proof-of-purchase, which for most people probably means the warranty is dead.
As for using diesel over propane, please consider that diesel fuel will last up to 1 year before starting to go bad so you would need to either drain the fuel from the tank be it from running the generator or using the fuel elsewhere (like in a diesel car)
Diesel actually starts to break down very, very quickly, it just doesn't get to the point of total crap for awhile. You can check to see if your generator supports running on one of the military variants of diesel, or JP8, or Jet-A, or the military variant of Jet-A, all of which have somewhat better long-term storage characteristics than standard diesel, but are lower viscosity. There are various other benefits to some of these as well, though also significantly higher cost. I'm told that "military variants" are typically the civilian variant with additives, which you may be able to do yourself. PRI-D seems to be the most commonly recommended one.
I've been using PRI-G for many years without issue, seems to work much better than STA-BIL. We live in a mandatory ethanol blending area and I periodically drive out to get pure 100% gasoline for stabilized storage.
Additional interesting reading, which I just found: https://www.backdoorsurvival.com/secrets-of-succesful-fuel-storage/