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Canister welding certainly sounds like it might do the trick, but the requirement for vacuum and the fact I have no metal working experience whatsoever seems to make it implausible for me.
Still...I...

Thanks for the help, gentlemen. :chapeau
I think (unless the feeding-to-plants suggestion wasn't facetious?) my best choice for my wallet and the environment would be to send these off to be...

Hey guys...I see a lot of smithing knowledge here and I have next to none, so please pardon me if this post is hopelessly, ineptly noobish.

The short of it is, I've been keeping all my old DE...