Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 14 May, 2001.
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Present: PB, Pof, GV, FH, ML, RKK, MGF, ASD, Mlenc, NK

*) Milestones

	- ft04 is finished and has been placed in its coffin.

	- ft05 has been welded shut and will be dye penetrant
	  tested today, and cold tested later this week.

*) One pigtail was flagged with a high resistance short (~250 MOhm, 
   tested at 10 Volts with the electrical shop's MegaOhmmeter)
   while cabling ft05 (resistance between pigtail channels is
   typically > 100 GOhms) and hence replaced with another pigtail.
   Pof has contacted Laurent Serin and Christophe De La Taille, who 
   feel that the cable will still be ok to use.

*) After discussing the matter of ambient flange power supplies
   among Terry, PB, Mark, and pof, a note was sent to
   Louis Fayard recommending that the power supplies be at least
   40 to 50 Watts (the heat leakage from a Standard feedthrough
   was measured last year to be approximately 17 Watts), and also
   pointed out that the heat leakage from a HEC feedthrough will 
   be 7.3 Watts greater.  There should also be on hand one or more
   power supplies with sufficient capacity to cope with the
   heat loss from a catastrophic loss of vacumm, ~75 Watts leak 
   for 1 bar in the bellows, and ~150 Watts leak for 1.5 bar in
   the bellows.  Further measurements will be done on heat leakage
   and temperature regulation once the instrumentation is ready
   and opportunity permits.  Mark will also prepare a drawing
   of the heater in postscript format to send to Louis.

*) 24 pincarreris are expected to arrive this week (in fact, they
   arrived on Tuesday 15 May).  Once the first 12 pincarriers 
   have been cold cycled and leak checked, we will begin our
   trial run of completing three Standard feedthroughs in one month.
   A further 16 pincarriers will be requested to arrive in time
   to carry on with building one HEC and one Special feedthrough 
   after the three Standards are done.

*) We have no contract with Specific Mechanical regarding the
   hourly cost of welding or the travel cost (which should include
   parking).  Paul B. will contact Tom Goldbach of SM and George
   Stenning of UVIC Purchasing Services to rectify this situation.

*) There was a short discussion of the motorized elevator platform
   idea proposed by Didier Steyaert to provide feedthrough access
   for the electrical tests after installation onto the cryostat.
   This matter will be further discussed in more detail at CERN.  

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- Progress on ft05
- Further heater measurements
- Plans for ft06, ft07, ft08 and beyond.
- AOB