RE: Spoked wheels -- no soldering needed!
Yeah, Donnie, that's my plan -- to basically build myself a "kit" while I'm here. I can do all the details and even made all the (scale accurate) ribs and fuse formers. I'm looking to make my move back to the US within a year but who knows.
I used to CA to join the rubber foam tire I'm using at the moment but since this is pretty soft stuff the CA forms a hard ridge. It worked fine on the heater hose tire though.