The recipe calls for tin plates in a Metal Former while in extrude mode. It will not except the plates in extrude mode.

industrialcraft-2-2.3.253-ex18 unable to craft Empty Cell
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Empty cells were removed and completely replaced with Universal Fluid cells.
You craft them with a glass pane surrounded with tin item casings. -
Ty for taking the time to answer that Aroma, all better now.
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I haven't been playing IC2 for 1.8.9 (because of GregTech), but I'm curious: do UFCs even work for compressed air in that version? In 1.7.10, that's one of the few things (or maybe the only thing) that can't be stored in UFCs.
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They DO work.