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It's quite hard to get firm information about heat treating and repairing aluminium amongst the non-facts and guesswork that circulates - particular filler rods etc.
I was once given an incredible booklet from a place that did some heat treating for me, I'll see if I can share it.
I can weld it and have a powdercoating oven that can go to 250deg big enough for a bike frame, so can do some of the flavours of heat treating if needed, but it's expensive to run a big oven these days.
If you want a quick weld, it'll only take 10mins while you wait. (I'm the other side of Norfolk) - it'll probably be fine. It just need a good clean up in that area first. Most metal workshops could do that for you. I guess they'd want anything from £20-50 depending how stressed/friendly they feel.
But offering a warranty would be alot more expensive for it to be worthwhile.