You could set the sorter to output unid'd items to that chest after it by giving it a color too. Also the sorter doesn't need a redstone signal. Also use a filter to feed the sorter as a transposer will only do single items.
EE is full of exploitative loops and it will take roughly two days with minimal quarrying to get gem armor if you aren't pushing yourself. Just look at cobble to slabs (first thing you can do), darkrooms, milking machines or ultimately blaze farms. Collectors and relays are there only to slow you down.
Read wikis or if you must watch direwolf. Buildcraft is full of half-assery like the leaky pipes and terrible coding while EE is suped-up creative mode with no downsides.
The bad thing about yogscast bringing people over to tekkit is that they are teaching them to use mainly EE and buildcraft, both of which are terrible things to use.
Title: Stuck in creative mode after joining a server
Version: 3.1.2
OS: Windows 7
Java Version: 8
Description of Problem:
Every time I join our 3.1.2 server I am in creative mode with the creative menu displayed and me not having any health or armor.
Fixes we've tried is deleting .tekkit and cache and grabbing everything again and deleting my info from the server.
Everything worked last weekend when the server was 3.1.1 but the update during the week seems to have broken my character (and a reset doesn't work)
edit: I wasn't Opped on the server before the patch or after it.
Fix: Updating java 8 to a more recent snapshot fixed this. Wonder what changed to cause it to fail.