Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 2 October, 2000.
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Present: GV, Pof, AD, MLef, PB, RKK, MLenc, MGF

*) Milestones:

	- The bellows and funnels that were cleaned at
	  TRIUMF last month have all bee leak checked.
	  Two of the bellows have leaks, and will be
	  returned to BOA.  All other bellows and funnels
	  are ok.  We now have a stock of 52 leak-tight
	  bellows.

	- Ten cuff rings arrived.  These will be shipped
	  to BOA to complete the bellows order.

*) FT01 will be welded on tuesday this week, along with the
   pincarriers for FT02.

*) Margret will order 50 ATI-connector jackscrews (at an
   exorbitant price) from AXON to replace those which may
   defective or damaged during installation.  AXON would
   like to receive samples of the malformed micro-D jackscrews.
   Aaron will provide those to Margret.

*) Mark in continuing work on the ambient flange heater.  Bob
   Hackenburg of BNL has informed Mark that BNL will stick to
   their 25 Ohm heater design (equivalent to our 75 Ohms in
   parallel) as originally planned.  Regarding the heater wires, 
   the insulation on the wires carried by alpha are not halogen 
   free, and hence not useable.  The physics electronics shop
   will be approached for help in wiring the heaters during 
   production, as well as manufacture of the circuit board to
   hold the fuses.  Richard expressed the need to place a
   piece of kapton in the void in the heater plate below the
   circuit board to prevent the possibility of shorts.

*) The design for the shipping crate needs to be finalized
   by November so that we don't end up with lots of un-crated
   feedthroughs lying about in the lab.

*) There has been no reply to RKK from Horst Oberlac regarding
   further information on the HEC LV warm cables that Horst has
   asked UVIC to provide.

*) HCC/Glasseal will go immediately into full production of
   pincarriers, at a rate (hopefully) of 20 or more pincarriers
   a week to be shared initially at a ratio of 3 pairs to BNL for 
   each 1 pair to UVIC.  The pincarriers are likely to be a mix
   of CERN low inclusion steel and standard 304-L steel (provided
   by HCC).  The pincarrier serial numbers will reflect the 
   steel type.  BNL has recently reported some difficulties welding
   the 304-L pincarriers into flanges, but feel that this might
   be due to contamination from nickel and gold getting too close 
   to the top of the weld lip.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- Progress on FT1 and plans for FT2
- Heater update
- Plans for NSERC site visit
- AOB