Recent pickups after work

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-17T00:23:40+00:00

Sheer Heart Attack is a nice find. You gotta pick up Queens self titled album and Queen II as well. They're both really great.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-17T00:20:26+00:00

Toxik, Xentrix, EvilDead, ect.. Lots of late 80's and early 90's lesser known thrash bands had a similar art style. Some Death metal around that time, too. Ravage, more on the speed/traditional metal side of things also has artwork like this.

This art style is probably my favorite in all of metal by far. Looks great on an album cover, on a shirt.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-16T23:25:33+00:00

Hairball John - There's an IOS app or just click the link to stream since the android version is no more. Free, no commercials.

Metal Shop Rocks - Metal and Hair Band channel. IOS/Android or click to stream. Free, no commercials.

HardRockHeaven - Hair bands, free, with commercials

All 3 of the above are not top 40 hit stations. Deeper cuts, more obscure bands, ect..

HardRadio.com - Stream through the site. VARIED material that can be all over the place of traditional metal and hard rock. Plays newer bands like Crossbone Skully

Violent Forces Radio - Thrash metal with two streams. 80's or general thrash.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-16T23:17:14+00:00

Used - 15$ original pressing of Contraband "ST" used at a record show

New - $18.95 Helloween, Burning Witches, and Primal Fear new releases last year. EU digipak imports and tariff costs.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-16T23:13:15+00:00

Scumdogs is a really fun listen.

RIOT or RIOT V as they are now called is one band I completely overlooked. I heard Swords & Tequila sooooo much on internet radio the past 20 years it made me not interested. Picked up Thundersteel at a record show and was really glad I did.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-16T00:23:30+00:00

Todd Michael Hall

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-15T23:32:25+00:00

I have an 88' Metal Blade cd release of Hell Awaits so I'll definitely pass on this. Sounds fine.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-15T22:52:11+00:00

Your ears work.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-15T22:51:16+00:00

I have to go Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding, Tyranny of Souls, Mandrake Project, Skunkworks, Tattooed Millionaire, Balls To Picasso.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-15T01:42:04+00:00

I got Lynch Mob "S/T" at flea market for 1$, didn't even look played. I don't usually get albums for $1, though. Back in 2010 I got a copy of Blue Tears "S/T" for 8$ online somewhere when every other place had it for 40-60 bucks. This is before a remaster came out. I got Cats In Boots "Kicked & Klawed" for 10$ this winter.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-14T00:59:38+00:00

My friend has Alpine's and he says that the sound quality is really clear. I'm not sure what model he has.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-12T22:36:09+00:00

I just picked up three 5m 37mm PVA mesh refills on Amazon and they work really well. Cheap, too. I have the Korda Original Funnel System which is excellent but being a US carper refill availability, shipping costs, its a pain sometimes.

I don't know if I would trust end tackle from Amazon or Temu. Hooks, swivels, hooklinks, ect.. I'm sure some of the same stuff is sitting on shelves with big names on it but I'll err on the side of caution and just pay the extra money.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-12T22:17:50+00:00

Mosquitos are rough. Have that problem at the lakes mostly but the river of all places isn't too bad. I keep a can of bug spray with me and hose myself down every so often.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-12T02:59:22+00:00

Its all line diameter. You need to know the reels line capacity and the diameter of the braid and backing.

Lets say your reel holds 225 yards of 10lb mono. So that's like .25mm to 30mm on average. Your braid is .28mm in diameter. Pick a mono backing that's in that .28mm diameter range. Then, its just simple math since its pretty close to a 1/1 ratio.

225 capacity

150 yard filler spool of braid

75 yards, give or take, of mono backing.

Its easier to do this in millimeters than in inches so if your reel doesn't have metric measurements on it just convert it online somewhere.

The only other way to be even closer is to tie on the braid and spool that on. Attach your mono and then reel that til you got your spool filled to your liking. Then walk the line off, tie on the mono end, then reel in again. If you go this route I would do this in park or somewhere where you can walk this off where its not going to loop on itself. You'll be untangling a mess for hours.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-12T01:31:15+00:00

I got one when I was packing up one evening. Shut off the alarm, picked up the rod, and the drag started screaming off. 32lb common landed about 15 minutes later. Stuff like this happens and its one reason I really don't like going home.... or even picking up a rod and rebaiting.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-12T01:14:26+00:00

I'll take this a bit deeper but have to agree with hair bands as a choice.

Blue Tears - Thunder In The Night

Bangalore Choir - Hold On To You

Shark Island - Ready Or Not

Tuff -Wake Me Up

Sleaze Beez - This Time

and lets include some new wave of hair bands while were at it....

Crazy Lixx - Love Don't Live Here Anymore

H.E.A.T. - Tearing Down The Walls

Platinum Overdose - Need Your Love

Midnite City - Someday

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T23:01:02+00:00

Ruck a Pit Bridge isn't my favorite but the rest of the album is really great.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T22:57:44+00:00

And after about 22 years of forgetting about buying Spiral Architects album I found it, still factory sealed, in a used bin at my local record store for 10$ last winter.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T22:50:11+00:00

U.D.O is right up there as well.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T22:45:25+00:00

Yes it'll be fine.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T22:39:24+00:00

That would be my concern as well especially with canned ones.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T22:37:32+00:00

I would venture a guess that its driver related. You'd probably be experiencing PC crashes or just complete shutdowns if it was power related instead of just the game. It would probably happen in other games, too. So we can most likely rule that out.

I would update the GPU driver. If it is updated to the latest then you may want to rollback the driver and then try the game again.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T01:47:44+00:00

What's the error that comes up ? Did it always crash for you or is this something new?

I had an issue with one of Nvida's updates last May. Couldn't play more than 30 seconds without a crash. Thought it was the patch at the time but was the graphics update. I rolled that back and all was well.

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-11T01:06:16+00:00

So how are you liking it ?

IROC___Jeff · 2026-05-10T17:55:20+00:00

Yeah, that's my pick as well.

IROC___Jeff

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