Dave, When I was a kid I experimented with body work. I would cut out the rust with tin snips, take a piece of sheet metal and used aluminum pop rivits to patch the holes. Then bondo over them. A torch will warp things and cause rust on the back side.
I like to use a 4 1/2 inch cutoff wheels 1/16 inch on a right angle grinder to cut the rust out with. It makes a nice clean cut, better than tin snips.
A few years ago I spent about 10 days welding the tin on my Jubilee, fabbing tool box, fenders, and repairing a lots of holes in the tin. That's where a good mig comes in handy. If you use a mig with flux wire, you have a lot of splatter to clean up after each weld, no thank you.
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