Do yourself a favour, find a local man who does "micro-welding". That is TIG done with extremely fine filler rod and under high magnification. Anybody in the machine shop business should be able to steer you to such a man. Make sure that you tell him that it needs to be welded with mild steel rod, otherwise he's apt to use stainless steel.The welds WILL self harden and you'll want to get some die-sinkers stones to dress them off, as files, except diamond, will just skate on them. A GOOD man will do welds so incredibly well that very little dressing off will be required. It would be $50 or so very well spent! I have a local man that I use quite often and I've never begrudged a penny that I've paid him.
Last edited by Ron Vella; 11/29/06 08:23 AM.