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A friend of mine gave me an old Puch Mistral Somethingorother at the weekend. The frame is a much better fit for me, which is great, but it's in bad nick. Unfortunately, stripping it revealed a few problems. The frame tubing says it's 'Puch Original 2500 High-Tensile Steel Tubes', same for the fork blades.
The brace for the brake between left and right seat stays is cracked on the crank-side. That's pushed the right seat stay out about a centimeter. Then I noticed the right drop-out is cracked where it meets the right chain-stay and is out of alignment slightly. Once I bring the rear rear end into where it should be (i.e. the same width as the lock-nut distance), things are mostly in alignment.
My question is: can these cracks be welded? If so, where would I go to get this done?