Minecraft 1.9.4
Forge 1.9.4-12.17.0.1932
Refined Storage 0.7.6

EnderIO 1.9.4-3.0.0.36_alpha

After seeing a screenshot you recently posted showing the crafter working with a chest attached to a solderer with EnderIO conduits, I tried it with a chest attached to a furnace. Everything worked until the result was placed in the chest, which wasn't removed.

Edit: Oh! And, I'm using a separate crafter to craft planks and sticks when needed, which worked; two sticks were added to the chest, which were used by the furnace to smelt the gold.

I know that I can just use an importer, but is the crafter also intended to pull results out where possible?

Screenshots (in the last shot, there was already a result ingot; I just filled in the rest to check if the slot was the problem)

World Save (2.18 MB) (there are other mods installed, but only EnderIO is relevant here)

Hey, the crafter doesn't pull items no, you'll need a Importer :). This for various reasons including balancing and the single responsibility principle. Thanks for the good (bug)report though!