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The melting point of copper (1984 F) is 2x higher than the max temp of most soldering irons.  Just solder it.  You can't melt the wires without a torch.   If you melt a little insulation you can put heat shrink tubing over it.  The twist and epoxy method will most likely provide a high resistance connection and your lights may vary in brightness or not work at all.   As for your flip down (go down not up), use track nails to hold your flex track and cork in place.  Glue the cork with yellow wood glue if you want.  This is assuming your flip down is just made out of wood.  If you have foam on top use liquid nails to hold the tracks in place.   As for power, just run a length of wire for each rail leaving enough extra slack to your fold down So that the wires can reach the fold down in any position.  Run the wires through a piece of over sized heat shrink tubing held in place with a wire staple (i will post photos of my fold up when I return home).  Run these wires to a terminal block.  The you can run the wires from the terminal block to the track.
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