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Soldering directly to the rails is the best as recommended above. The method I use is to remove about 4 ties form the area I'm planning on attaching the leads and the I use alligator clips on either side of the area as a heat sink and then apply heat rail and the wire and touch the end of the solder if the heat is right it will flow very neatly and you will have a very strong connections.. File the ties you removed smooth and silde them under the rail. once you balace the track you will not beable to tell they had been remove.
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