I tried that. Like I said I deleted my .minecraft folder completely. Then tried it with straight vanilla minecraft with modloader and Forge. I even went and re-downloaded the mods(modloader &forge). No good. I get just 1 dust from each iron ore I macerate.
I dont suppose someone else could try doing a clean install with just those 3 to see if they get only 1 dust also?
The one thing I didn't do is start a new world. I mean I DID, but not for just modloader, forge, and IC2. I used the world I created when I also had NEI installed. But that was my only other mod. Although that mod requires chickens Core to work. But still, NEI is extremely popular, with good reason. But no one else is having this trouble that I'm aware of. There is no way I was going to stuggle to build up everything to the point I could make the Macerator & Electric Furnace in vanilla MC.
Thankfully I remembered to backup the folder before I deleted it. It's looking to me that it's not a mod conflict. It cant be.
Any more ideas? I'm plum out, aside from uninstalling jaa and reinstalling it anyway.