anyway, I plan to get a nice watercooled tig torch and cooler in anticipation of getting an everlast 250ex and trying it out on scratch start TIG w/ the stick output on the MIG machine. the sheet metal on these old saabs is pretty thin by automotive standards and for the super thin stuff like this I used to weld pretty solid at about 28A, so I think the lack of foot pedal will be ok. I bought a foot of 1/8" copper strap a while ago that I plan on cutting up so I have a place to snap the arc off on w/o distorting the sheetmetal. I've never run tig w/o a foot pedal, it might be unnecessary, but I've got it.