Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.127.104.213-20131211231419/@comment-24.18.8.160-20131231060549

in my experience, the trick is to control input at the raw materials level-x iron, y redstone, z copper into the early stages of crafting...

And then use a filter+redstonepipe+detector to drain the craft table mark2 dry with every pulse of the master timer.