"Asking too much"
Or maybe trying too little - the first suggestion in my list yielded a few DOZEN links worth checking out.
Then I searched on
book - which welding joints to use and why and got several MORE suggestions worth checking out. Searching the above highlighted string will get you dozens of book suggestions just from amazon, but you'd have to read thru the descriptions to see if a particular book SOUNDS like it'd help YOU. My own library (just reference) takes up 8 feet of floor to ceiling book shelves and covers pretty much everything I've EVER been interested in (a really LONG list) -
Your request sounds like a SIMPLE one, but it really isn't - my own "path of enlightenment" on
just this subject happened over a span of about 56 YEARS starting with Acetylene (nearly getting KILLED by an IDIOT tended to increase my thirst for KNOWLEDGE), then a brief period with TIG (called Heli-Arc back then), then stick in 1973 (pipeliner friend's SA200), then bought a 250 amp ac/dc buzz box (still works), then got my first MIG in about 2010, second one in 2012, third one in 2015 (added a stick/TIG combo in there somewhere, had the plasma cutter since about 2011) -
BTW, the "enlightenment" won't end til they "pat me in the face with a shovel", which hopefully is still a ways away
Sorry, that got a bit longer than I expected; best of luck, and don't give up til you find something that works for you; stubbornness can be a useful tool... Steve