We bought a 0.023 tip at our local welding supply store. See All 20 Photos With the correct drive roller and contact tip installed, you can begin to feed the wire into the drive unit and torch cable.

If you're never welded before, today's easy-to-use wire-feed units speed up the learning process. Time to spark your creativity. First, practice handling the gun without actually welding.

Metal inert gas and the MIG welder has made it pretty dang easy for the beginner to be able to do some welding. Since these welders are a point and shoot type of design, all you have to do is pull ...