Crusher
The Crusher is a machine from Metallurgy 4: Reforged that allows you to crush different ingredients into their dust form.
Differently from the Alloyer this machine requires a tier 3 metal (Oureclase) as well as a bimetal structure block and steel,
so you won't be able to craft this machine if you don't have these required materials.
The actual crafting recipe is shown here below:
Extra Tip: Try out Thermite as a fuel for this machine!
One of the benefits of crushing ores instead of smelting directly in a furnace is you get double the output of dust after crushing ores, meaning you get 2 ingots for each piece of ore you mine.
Some people prefer to keep their metal stock in the form of dusts, these players might be interested in Manual Alloying: a process to blend together 2 metal dusts to create alloy blend then smelt this new dust to create the alloy. You might think this is useless once you've made yourself an Alloyer, but it is still possible to do it and it might be convenient to build alloys directly from dusts if you have access to a Crusher.
You can add/remove recipes to/from the Crusher via CT's Zenscripts
Check out these commented examples
You can crush any kind of metal in the crusher, even metals from other mods.
If you want a nice in-game list of all the recipes install Just Enough Items
