Get dust out of ingots with applied energistics

[ftw144222]

Hi Community
I want to make dust out of ingots for example iron ingots. But i dont want it do make dust constantly because i only need it when making Invar dust. If i do it in a pattern encoder it will show me i only can make iron nuggets out of the ingot and if i replace the nuggets with iron dust it will still produce dust when i click craft. Is there any way for me to do it?
Thanks for the answers!

 

[malicious_bloke]

Encode the pattern "iron ingot" -> "pulverized iron" (put an iron ingot in the crafting grid then just put a bit of pulverized iron where the 9 iron nuggets appear) and put it in an ME interface on top of a pulverizer. Then put an import bus on another side of the pulverizer.

Then when you tell the network to craft pulverized iron, the network will send an ingot to the pulverizer

 

[Padfoote]

Manually encode a pattern that says Iron Ingot = Iron Dust. Grab an Interface, place that on top of a machine that can grind ingots, such as a pulverizer, place the encoded pattern into the interface, and you're done. You can now auto craft iron dust.

Edit: Ninja'd

 

[ftw144222]

Oh thanks guys ure epic!

 

[Lordlundar]

There is a catch to this however. If you have your system set up to automatically smelt the dust into ingots then any dust you request will be immediately turned back into ingots. A workaround to this is to not use AE or setting up a sub or secondary network exclusively to deal with the processing of mined materials and use an ender chest to import the final results from the processing network into your main network.

 

[belgabor]

Encode the pattern "iron ingot" -> "pulverized iron" (put an iron ingot in the crafting grid then just put a bit of pulverized iron where the 9 iron nuggets appear) and put it in an ME interface on top of a pulverizer. Then put an import bus on another side of the pulverizer.

Then when you tell the network to craft pulverized iron, the network will send an ingot to the pulverizer

If you use a TE pulverizer do not use an import bus, use it's autoeject capability and put an interface there. Cheaper and faster.

 

[Methusalem]

You could simply use the Induction Smelter to smelt Iron + Ferrous ingots directly into Invar.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

There is a catch to this however. If you have your system set up to automatically smelt the dust into ingots then any dust you request will be immediately turned back into ingots. A workaround to this is to not use AE or setting up a sub or secondary network exclusively to deal with the processing of mined materials and use an ender chest to import the final results from the processing network into your main network.

It should register the dust as a crafting ingredient and only auto smelt the excess. (assuming you directly requested invar).
Level emitters or a prioritised storage bus are fairly good for storing X amount of Y item before processing the rest.

 

[Lordlundar]

It should register the dust as a crafting ingredient and only auto smelt the excess. (assuming you directly requested invar).
Level emitters or a prioritised storage bus are fairly good for storing X amount of Y item before processing the rest.

Only if you're doing one at a time. If you try doing stacks then it starts to resmelt the dust.