What method and how long do you dry the brass so that the primers don’t glue themselves to the case? I just processed a bunch of .223 brass and depriming them before tumbling took a lot longer than I wanted to spend.

Are you wet cleaning, depriming and then dry tumbling (or did I get that wrong. It's late here)? When I wet cleaned I would let the brass dry for a day. I then deprimed and sized the cases and trimming to OAL, removed crimp and then loaded. I never did both cleaning methods on a batch of brass. Now I strictly use dry media (corn cob) for 2-3 hrs and move on. Hope that helps.

Just wet tumbling. I’ve seen what can happen if you wet tumble and then store the brass before the cases are fully dry. The pin punches a hole through the primer but the primer body is still welded to the case.

It’s not a big deal to deprime 100 cases but if you’re doing a 5 gallon bucket full it’s a lot of work that I’d like to eliminate. If you finish processing the brass within a few days you may not have any problems getting the primers out, but if life takes over and you have to finish processing 3 weeks later, you’re gonna have issues if you didn’t get them dry enough first.

24 to 48 hours in the summer sun would probably do the trick but I’m not sure. I have no idea how long it would take in the winter under a fan. I also don’t know how much the divorce attorney would cost if the Mrs. found a few thousand .223’s in her oven.

Can't say as I have ever seen primers still welded to the case.
I have reloaded several thousand rounds in small batches.
I normally deprime first before anything else.

I always deprime first, wet tumbler for three
hours then dry in food dehydrator for hour and a half.