There's a welding shop in downtown Olympia I used to customize the aluminum
intake manifold on my Mercedes, which leads me to believe that Seattle still
has at least a dozen of these old shops around for such on-call work.
Welding SS ain't brain surgery, and I bet it can be done in less than 15
minutes.  You might try calling a local welding supply company and ask them
which shops around there are capable of doing little projects like that.
Don't over-complicate the task at hand.

On 10/7/07, Mark McCulley <markmcculley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for your responses.
>
> The reason I need to weld brackets on the Stebro muffler is that the
> original brackets broke and Stebro sent me me replacement brackets under
> warranty. I mistakenly thought it would be quicker to have them send me
> the
> brackets and find someone to weld them to the muffler than to send the
> muffler back to Stebro in Canada. I should have just sent it back for
> repairs, that's probably what I'll do now as it seems I will have a
> difficult time finding a local shop to do the job properly.
>
> -Mark
>