The heat shield on my exhaust failed on a track day last Friday. The welds on the bits where the jubilee clips pass through failed and it all but fell off. At least that was all the terrible rattling was!
As its an aluminium alloy piece, its tricky to weld, but I dropped into Sweetnam Bradley, a metal fabricators in Malmesbury completely unannounced while I was having my new tyres fitted to the Westy. They are right next door to Kwik Fit.
Met a delightful chap, turned out he'd scratch-built his own kit car and he offered to TiG weld it there and then for the cost of a few quid into the tea swindle. Fantastic service and a really nice thing to do - and a really neat job, too.
So in return, I'll give them a plug on the Forum. If you are anywhere in the vicinity of Wiltshire and need some metalwork, here's the people to do it! Good chaps!