Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 1 May, 2000.
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Present: GV, AD, Pof, TH, PB, MLenc 

*) Milestones:

	- The purchase order for the HLT 270 has been
	  received by Pfieffer; delivery is 7-8 weeks.

	- PB put two samples of rohacell into the bell
	  jar to check how much it expands when dried out.
	  One sample was a long piece with a steel rule
	  attached, and the other was cut as it would be
	  for production - a half circle shape with slots
	  cut out for vacuum cables.  After one day of
	  pumping, no expansion (or any other shape
	  distortion) was observed.  We will resume pumping
	  today.

	- PB, AD, and GV were trained in operating the 
	  electrical test hardware and VI's.

*) Still no vacuum cables.
    
*) We still require revised delivery schedules for the pincarriers.

*) 12 yrds of conductive foam and 500 pieces of precut graphite will
   be ordered today.  The delivery time is 2-3 weeks for the foam
   and ~5 weeks for the graphite.  Terry will try to obtain five
   more graphite sample pieces (large enough for our resistor
   footprints) so that we can carry out the last cold-station
   thermal test as soon as the conductive foam arrives.  Some bench
   tests will also be carried out to compare the foam, graphite and
   thermal grease.  Also, samples of each type will be given to
   CJO to be rad checked.

*) Mark contacted Sicom regarding the funnel base delivery.  The
   funnel bases still required holes to be drilled and tapped, 
   which was to be carried out today (1 May).  They are to be
   shipped to us on Tuesday or Wednesday.  After inspection and
   cleaning of the weld lips, the bases will be shipped along
   with the lower funnel tubes to SM for assembly of the funnels.

*) Aaron will arrange for Dave Smith to drill and tap the holes
   in the warm flanges to accept the heaters.

*) Mark will calculate how much of the resistor footprint needs
   to be milled out to allow for ~2 mm clearance between the
   resistor and the VCR nut on the Tee piece.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- News from LARG week
- AOB