When trying to autocraft with the soldering station, it will not put iron in the right slot, and it will not distribute other items between all slots in the recipe.
E.g. autocrafting the nano hopper

Any update on this? I am using the latest version of 0.8 and this bug still exists, I can't automate the soldiering station using wooden or crafting pipes. I am waiting until the weekend to move to 0.9 and would like to know if has been fixed.

So wait - this Bug existed since 2014? Oo
It's 2016 and still not fixed in LP 0.9.3.128 (newest as of the time of this post)
Any chance there's ever gonna be a fix?
Cause as cleverca said, the lock-slot defies it's purpose ; )

Edit: Added the info in brackets

The soldering station will probably be replaced in 0.10

@theZorro266 with what?

@hron84 I guess that is a surprise ;)

@theZorro266 awww, surprises... can't wait :-)

Seems to occur in the latest release as well.

It would be nice if you could just use the placement rules upgrade with crafting pipes.

It'd be better if soldering station should work more like how vanilla furnaces work, accept "fuel" (in this term: iron) from different side than the crafting materials.

@hron84 isn't really related to this issue, but a good idea, I think.

this bug kind of defeats the purpose of having the extra lock slot in the top right

I tried automating using a hopper on the top. After I placed hoppers inside it (for creating the nano hopper) they just disappeared.

I love surprises!

I love surprises!

surprises like someone adding a comment to an issue from 2016? 😄

Surprises like issues from 2016 not having been fixed when playing a modpack in 2020.

I'm kidding of course. :)

That shouldn't be surprising, there are tons of those :D