Quote Originally Posted by Mike g View Post
Clearly I am going to need to bite the bullet and learn how to solder...
If you've not done it yet you might pick up solder and an iron cheaply at Lidl.
Maybe you're joking though.

Our Lidl currently has soldering kit, and it seems considerably cheaper than Maplin, where I paid around £6 for a roll of solder recently. Lidl's was not quite £3.