Oh. Well the work I put into this timer computercraft stuff whatever, worth it.If you want to extract liquids from tanks (in the form of cells or buckets or something linke that) with ae, I think it only works via additional machines like the liquid transposer (or maybe stuff like deployer, turtles etc.)
Saves a lot of tin, I use thatThe Liquicrafter in MFR is worth a look. I wanted to automate crafting of coolant cells and it basically makes it so you don't need a liquid container by replacing that with the liquid piped directly in.
Item I/Os will fill any fillable container (or drain the container, if placed in full). If you shift-click the Item I/O with a wrench, stick or empty hand (IIRC), you can switch it between white (Inventory, and default), Blue (Input) and Orange (Auto-eject Output) modes like TE machines. So with 2 Item I/O on one tank you can use one for the input slot and one for the output slot, ensuring you never "Fill" the output slot with empties.Only problem is keeping a certain amount of empty containers in the input slot of the item IO because any automation will also fill the output slot with empty containers, stopping the filling process.
Saves a lot of tin, I use that
Of course Greg will probably find this thread and then make it incompatible with the liquicrafter... And then make it take a new "Coolant injector" or something...
Making glass viewers is a fairly good use...Aluminium (xycraft) is also almost useless unless made into cans.
But then it takes 4 tin for one 10k coolant cell - when you start needing a bunch of 60k ones for superconductors, it really eats through tin.Tin cans/cells aren't anything I use to make coolant cells anyway. Capsules from beeswax are pretty close to free. Glass bottles are a close second being just slightly processed sand. But the liquicrafter saves me even that step.
Making glass viewers is a fairly good use...
I might have to try thatOr you could just, you know, magically turn aluminum into tin by smelting the cans.....