Here is my first attempt at mig welding, anything you guys can give to help me out would help alot. I have a Lincoln 175, set too A, "2" wire speed, and gas was at 14. Here are the pics...

 

Ok your showing us pics of beads layed on flat metal.

In the top pic your moving your hand too much so its too squigly. The sheet metal you were working with may be too thin or you may have your heat on too high. A heat is really low and you still had holes so im guessing the metal is really thin.

The 2nd bead is good.


Now start practing different methods (Pushing away from you & pulling the bead towards you). After that start welding different peices of metal together

 

Yea, the first pic is thin stuff. The second is a little thicker. Do i need to take better pictures next time?

 

get a soapstone, draw a line on your metal with a straight edge and follow the line with your bead. if you can't see a soapstone line you might need to change your lense in your helmet.

practice on some thicker material or turn your wire speed and heat down so that you can get a nice globular transfer to the base metal without burning through or sputtering too much.

your second picture looks okay, but like i said, draw a line on the metal with a soapstone and follow the line, that will give you an idea of how to position yourself to keep a straight bead.

otherwise just more practice and you will be welding up a storm in no time.

 

i don't think it's too bad for your first time. it looks to me you get the concept of watching your puddle, a thing that most people don't understand when they first start. that is the most important skill to learn in welding. now you just need to get the feel of when your about to burn thru, and to compensate by increasing your hand speed. also on the top pick just keep welding that sheet, over and over again. by the time you get that thing covered, not only will you be able to fill holes, but you should be running some pretty nice beads. you should post it up when you done.