Do You Glue Athearn wire handrails on? - Model Railroader Magazine

I finally got caught up enough to take a hobby break by adding details that come with an Athearn SW7 kit.

The kit comes with wire handrails. I measure them to be about 0.023 inch in diameter. The front handrail has two stanchions, so it has four holes to go into the body.

The main handrail would fit into one hole but not the other until I drilled the hole with an 0.022 inch diameter drill, the closest I have. The stanchions fit tightly but the main handrail that was too tight now is too loose and I fear it falling off someday into the void where such things go, never to be found again.

1. Do any of you have advise as to whether to glue the metal handrails or leave them alone?

2. If gluing, glue with CA or with plastic glue to the body?

3. Glue from the front or take off the shell and try to glue the ends of the wires from inside?

4. Is it best to glue the stanchions to the wire handrails with CA? I can solder but I fear melting the plastic.

5. If gluing from the front, how do you keep from messing up the finish?