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Nobody I know me included cleans their SxS from the muzzle end...next time you clean one from the breach end check the front of the barrels and you'll find some solvent that needs to be wiped off unless you're being quit liberal with your cleaning solvent.

I do agree that a lot of vintage guns ribs come loose for various reasons...the most common one is age and use.

Gunut. Sorry I can�t give an answer to your question because, I have about 10 KG of the stuff in a heavy duty plastic bottle in my workshop, I just pour enough out to do the job and then return it back into the bottle after I am done, well I have no need to keep it pure or clean. Though if I want to use some for a Clock or Barometer repair I drip the mercury through Nitric Acid to clean it up enough to look good.

Mercury was known as Night Silver. You got it from your local druggist or chemist. If severely constipated you drank some just before bedtime. Next morning your constipation was cured. You collected your stool and took it back to the druggist who recovered the Mercury for reuse by the next person.

Limited exposure was not that bad it was years and years of constant exposure that caused "mad as a hatter". Mercury was used in the pressing of felt(beaver felt) as I recall and it was absorbed into the body through the skin. Ended up messing up the central nervous system.

We use to play with liquid Mercury we I was a kid. Interesting metal.