Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 5 February, 2001.
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Present: Pof, PB, GV, AD, MLenc, ML, RKK, MGF

*) Milestones

	- Vacuum cable tests of the current stock is complete.
	  We have at this point received 1650, returned (or
	  about to return) 136, and paid for 1614.
	  Pof will contact FCI to confirm that our tally
	  agrees with theirs.

	- 13 VCR T-glands have arrived from CERN.

	- 120 RTD's for the ambient flange heater have arrived.
	  One has been tested (and it worked...); the others
	  will be tested as they are installed on the
	  heater plates.  RKK pointed out that the RTD wires
	  should be strain relieved on the heater plate 
	  when mounted.  Mark thinks that this could probably
	  be implemeted at the same point (on the fuse case)
	  where the power lines are strain relieved.

*) Pof will provide PB with two slides for the LARG week
   summarizing the feedthrough construction status at UVIC.

*) The ambient flange heaters are nearly ready to be manufactured.
   The only items holding this up are:
	- A small pocket needs to be milled out of each heater
	  plate for the fuse PC board.
	- The fuse covers need to be manufactured.
	- The fuse PC boards need to be cut to size.
	- An assembly jig for the wiring needs to be made.
   Also concerning the heaters, but not holding up manufacture are:
	- Final word from BNL how the power bundle will exit
	  the filter box.
	- Final word from BNL how the RTD wires are to be connected.
	  Note that BNL is using a 3-wire RTD, whereas we are
	  using a 4-wire RTD.

*) PB is working on a prototype ambient flange heater (essentially
   identical to the production heaters) for thermal tests to
   be conducted on a feedthrough in the cold test station.  Those
   tests are to be performed to determine the best operating
   paramters for the heaters.

*) There is an ATLAS week scheduled for 3 -> 8 June at BNL.
   A number of our group should plan to attend, and spend some
   extra time at BNL to check out their feedthrough factory.

*) PB has arranged with our purchasing department for the
   payment to HCC/Glasseal for the machining of the Timken steel.
   PB's note to Tom Muller on this is reproduced below:

     Hi Tom

     I have arranged with our purchasing dept at UVIC for GSP to
     bill us directly for US$32,300 for the machining of
     scrapped pin carrier blanks. They should use the same
     purchase order number as the completed pin carriers.

     The cost of the pin carriers has also been increased to
     reflect the added cost of the 304L material that GSP and
     HCC is now suppling for most (but not all) of the pin
     carriers. This is US$717.83 for the 7 row and US$808.08 for
     the 8 row pin carriers.

     Regards

     Paul Birney

*) Pof has confirmed that our present stock of pigtails is
   sufficient to build all feedthroughs for one endcap, with
   the exception of the 10 T51 calibration cables that were
   returned to Axon last November for calibration.  In response 
   to an email sent to him by Pof, Laurent Serin of Orsay said 
   that he has just this week received the test results for those
   10 T51 cables, so presumably we should be getting them
   back soon.

*) Mark is expecting to hear from BNL this week (wishful 
   thinking...) on their shipping crate design.  Meanwhile, Mark
   will construct a lid for our prototype shipping crate.

*) Fiona Holness will begin work with us on Tuesday 13 February.

+) Addendum to minutes of 29 January 2001:
   Mark was also present at the 30 January TIS video conference. 

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- Vacuum Cable HiPot testing
- AOB