You should give the soldering a go. If you have handled an iron before you can do it. Pick up some flux paste, lead-free high quality solder for electrical work and a low wattage iron. I've been soldering guitar electronics and guitar tube amps for many years and was sort of daunted by soldering PE. Couldn't have been easier (and i never used to use flux and now I do for electronics work as well, stuff is amazing).
What i do is scuff up and anneal the parts first so they are flexible and have some bite for the solder and later the paint. Use some blue tack to hold parts in position. Brush on a tiny amount of flux to the joint. Slice off little piece of solder (straight from the spool will put too much solder on). Melt the solder on the tip of the iron. Touch that spot of iron with solder to the joint. The flux should pull the solder off and flow it across the joint. Practice on some spare PE first but i think after 2-3 tries you'll get it. Plus if not right, just de-solder and try again. SO much better than CA glue.
Good luck!
Andy