Rear Hub Sprocket tab Repair?

[b1dude]

Greetings all,

A question for those much smarter than me...
Bought this hub/rim/tire on the cheap. I wanted to have a spare plus learn how to lace a wheel with this little project.

Question I have is this...in this pic you'll see that one of the sprocket mount tabs hab been broken. Probably from being overtorqued.

http://www.dirtrider.net/gallery/showimage.php?i=3617&c=3

Can this be repaired? I've got zero welding skills, but could a quality welding shop rebuild the area, so it could be reshaped/retapped?

Thanks for any info :cool:

 

[XRpredator]

it could be fixed, probably. You'd have to take the wheel apart first -- the rim, the spokes, etc. -- and there'd be labor involved with the repair.

I guess the question would be to do a cost/benefit analisys to see whether having the hub fixed (and having just a new hub) would be better than having a new hub?