Foot or fingertip control is WAY MONDO importanto for ANY tig welding. You can get by without one..but you wont like it
And least of all with aluminum, with its very wierd solid/liquidous range. You have to feather your way into it..else you will wind up with the base metal all over your workbench
Gunner
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