11.75 X 36mm Austrian Gasser Revolver

[Nuclearcricket]

Nice write up on how you did your cases. That is a lot of work to go through. I can make some suggestions that may speed things up for you a little and at first they may not make much sense. Going out on a limb I am going to take a guess that you do have a tail stock with a drill chuck as well as a center for your lathe. In the past I have set my lathe up to thin rims from the underside. First I turned a steped plug to fit the case mouth and center drilled it. Then I took a piece of aluminum, chuck it up and drill a hole, maybe 3/16 or so through it. The put a counter bore in it that is just large enough for the rim diameter to set in. This way you hold your case against the aluminum by pressure from the tail stock, this will allow you to cut the rims all to the same thickness and you can also turn the case diameter at the same time. After that is done you can chuck up the case and turn the OD of the case rim and debur it.
It may not make a lot of sense but friction will work to do a lot of things, its just not something that is taught. Its just a little trick I picked up along the way. One place I worked at just used friction to hold Fly Wheels to turn them. and these were the big ones from large disel over the road tractors.
Sam