...this thread was made in January what the hell
it's in the big post about guides since it's technically a guide to something, so it's not really a necro or anything.
I disabled the config for the electric steel tools, but it now requires refined iron plates, how can I make it so that the mining drill has the ic2 recipe
i spent about an hour digging through the configs and trying random crap, I haven't been able to get rid of the requirement for refined iron plates on seemingly random stuff. there doesn't even seem to be an option to disable the plate bending machine, as that was the next thing i tried.
Seems like it was intended to be a buff and output about 1.5x plates for every bar that goes in. You can try
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7156 to ask greg himself, but from what I read it looks like it's intentional and there is no config option to revert it yet.
until then, if you absolutely must use the default ic2 recipe i would cheat in a plate bending machine, feed it 5 refined iron, discard the extra plates(if it even does that? config implies it puts out 150% plates), and then get rid of the plate bending machine.