Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 02 April, 2001.
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Present: PB, Pof, AD, FH, MGF, ML, RKK

*) Milestones

	- Pincarriers for ft03 were welded last Tuesday;
	  cabling on ft03 was also started last week.

	- The NI DAQ card has been set up and is working.

	- The Keithley micro-Ohm meter for CERN tests has
	  arrived.

	- Plastic pincarriers for the ambient side have been
	  finished.

	- A camera (w/o lens) has been ordered for the task
	  of pincarrier inspections.  The lens and TV monitor
	  remain to be ordered.

*) Two pincarrier pins were bent while cabling ft03, one on
   the ambient flange and the other on the funnel side of the
   cold flange.  While the repair of the pin on the ambient
   flange was not difficult, requiring the removal of only
   one vacuum cable, the repair of the cold flange pin was
   rather involved since all vacuum cables had to be removed
   to access the pigtails.  Since this sort of inefficiency 
   cannot be tolerated, new procudures will be introduced where
   the pigtail continuity will be tested as each pair of pigtails
   is plugged in.  Similiarly, the vacuum cables will also be
   tested as each pair of vacuum cables is plugged in.  This
   necessitates a minor modification of the assembly jig (the
   scissor jack needs to be reversed) and also the installation
   of the pigtail jumpers as each pair of pigtails is installed.
   Note that it is expected that the pigtails jumpers will 
   remain installed until at least the completion of the
   cold electrical tests, which will require the purchase of
   additional sets of pigtail jumpers.  Pof will look into
   the use of the pigtail jumpers presently used by BNL; BNL
   has offered to send us one for testing.

*) AD is working on spacers for fuse box lids of the ambient 
   flange heater plates.

*) Laurent Serin sent an email to pof that he was told by Pierre 
   Imbert "the number of plugins for micro-D connectors which is 
   guaranteed, if they are correctly used, is more than one hundred 
   plugins".  I suspect that BNL's problems might be due to the
   fact that they don't use the jackscrews to plug in the micro-D's.

*) The heater plates still require milling for the fuse block.  
   PB and Pof should confirm on which side of the heater the
   fuse block belongs, since the prototype appears to be backwards.

*) There was some difficulty encountered while welding the
   pincarriers last week, which might be due to residual gold
   on the weld lip (although this was checked before and none
   was found).  It has been proposed that, as a standard procedure,
   the weld lips of all pincarriers be cleaned with scotch bright
   after the cold cycles, but before the HiPot tests.

*) Pof contacted Tom Muller by phone on 4 April.  Tom said that
   HCC is now up to 30 pincarrier bodies per week, and expects 
   Glasseal to be putting out 30 finished pincarriers per week
   by sometime next week.  Tom also mentioned that there is
   presently one set of pincarriers being shipped to UVIC from
   Glasseal.  Tom also agreed that the next shipment to UVIC
   will be two full sets.

*) The QA/QC document must be complted ASAP to be placed on EDMS.
   PB, AD, and GV will proof read the present draft and make
   necessary modifications.

*) The tests for the heater plate resistors should be terminated
   now, and a summary report prepared by PB for the upcoming LARG week.

*) PB has found through conversations with Tom Goldbach and the
   welder (Greg) of SM that SM is rather low on business, and that
   the second qualified welder (Loyd) has been laid off.  As a
   precautionary step, should SM go out of business, PB will check 
   to see what other welding shops in Victoria hold a U-stamp, for 
   the welding pressure vessels.  Steps should also be taken to ensure 
   that SM can provide a second qualified welder since it is too
   risky to rely on one qualified welder only.

*) Mark's services have been taken by TRIUMF for now, so the remaing
   shipping crate issues and heater plate issues will be covered
   by others.  The shipping crates will be built by Dave Smith.  The
   only remaining issues on the heater plates relate to the connects
   to be used for the power and sensor cords.  Don Makoviecki at
   BNL is the contact for the connectors.

*) The upcoming LARG week is 23 - 27 April.  Michel, Richard, and
   Margret will be attending, and should be provided with all
   material to be presented at the meetings.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- Heater plate resistor test summary
- Progress on ft03
- QA/QC document
- Video camera setup
- AOB