New Welding Thread ?'s for beginners...MIG

[Matt@RFR]

"filler weld" (is that right ??)

Bead-on-plate weld. It's not a weld, actually. A weld joins two seperate pieces. What he's having you do right now is simply getting used to the sights and sounds of MIG welding. That's really all it's good for.

I don't have any books that I recommend. Too many of the books I read as a beginner have outdated material, personal preferences that the author states as fact, and plain bad advice.