you scroll over the arrow and click on it to show the recipes but you don't need it for steel. steel should be ore dic so just make the easiest steel there is to make. I mean you only have to type steel in the search and then press u on the steel bar and scroll the different recipes. Just a Note: it is one iron dust or the like and one coal dust or the like in the "iron alloy furnace".
its entriely possible that techreborn steel is disabled becuase ic2 has a steel recipe but all recipes that need steel from tech reborn should be able to use any any steel in general .
i think the 2 methods for steel are immersive engineering blast furnace(multiblock)needing iron ingots and some coal coke or charcoal and ic2's blast furnace (single block but needs other blocks to run )needs iron ingots or any dust version of it or any partially processed iron ore from ic2 and 6 compressed air cells(empty cells get returned after) made in a compressor
thanks guys. i endedup figuring it out: what you need to do in order to make steel in feed the beast beyond is this: macerate coal to get coal dust, macerate
iron ingots to get iron dust, and then put both of them in the
iron alloy furnace at a 1:1 ratio. cook it using fuel (i use charcoal) and you get
steel blend. steel blend can be cooked in order to make steel ingots, which then act like any other ingot.
it does not appear that there is an electric version of the iron alloy furnace in ic2. techreborn has an electric alloy furnace but it uses FE for power and i don't know what that is.
thanks for the help, and on to the next thing that's messing me up: I remember long ago when buildcraft had redstone engines. they would do a tiny amount of work very slowly without needing fuel or power, just a redstone signal (like an adjacent redstone torch). i can't find that in the build gui - does an equivalent item still exist?