Originally Posted by
Peterpan1
That's the seat stay? Looks like the chainstay at the BB. Anything can be rewelded or splinted and rewelded. If it is the seat stay, then it should be OK because it is under compression. A Chainstay would possibly require some patching as well. Could get tight depending on what else is happening in that space. Other options are tube replacements. I don't know what people charge for that, but it is non-trivial, and I would have thought unless the frame is exceptional it would not be worth it.
Ti welding is a specialty, so you need to find someone who would be able to do it on bike tubes, won't be against doing it, and won't have their time taken up already, and works cheaply, preferably locally.
There is also the question of what broke it, and what else was cranked up in the process.
You left out the ugliness that is, basically, transversely weldign a tube.
As much as I hate to see a frame die, short of removing the whole tube and welding another back in - and that'd be the Devil's own game, I'd conduct a short service for family and friends, and then sell it on to a speciality metals recycler to be reborn as a hundred thousand other little titanium goodies.
Recycling. It's the only Reincarnation :-D