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There's very little "meat" at the screw hole, and the temps will get fairly high, so silver soldering might not do so well. May have to scab on a reinforcing plate on the outboard side of the jaw.
Do it. The steel is annoyingly brittle, so the silver-soldering will make it less so. In fact, annealing the lot might be a good idea.