Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 13 August, 2001.
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Present: Pof, PB, GV, FH

*) Milestones

	- Final tests on ft12 have been done.

	- ft13 was cold tested.  2 coaxe lines on one
	  of the pigtails have suffered some damage
	  during one of the operations (uncertain which,
	  but probably during removal from the assembly
	  jig) with a small (~2 mm) piece of kapton
	  insulation being stripped down to the ground
	  shield.  Pof has contacted Pierre Imbert for
	  repair suggestions, but no reply yet.  The
	  operation of removing the feedthrough from 
	  the assembly jig will be revised so that
	  further damage is less likely.

	- ft14 (our third Special) will be welded today
	  (Monday 13 Aug).

	- All heater plates have now been milled for the
	  fuse blocks.  The heater plates must still be
	  cleaned and burrs removed from the tapped holes; 
	  dishwasing detergent should suffice for the
	  cleaning operation.

	- The wiring jig for the heater plates has been
	  completed.  This is to be turned over to the
	  electronics shop for mass production after we've
	  tested it ourselves.

	- The Machine shop is now in pretty good shape, but
	  the TRIUMF lab (021) still requires lots of work
	  to sort through piles of decades old debris.
	  Aaron is disposing all unused chemicals, and Pof 
	  and Alisa are looking into proper storage cabinets
	  for the TMP and other flammables.

	- Jan and Greg have worked out the 'list box' problem
	  in the access data base for the final summary reports; 
	  only a few minor things need to be done to complete
	  the final reports.

	- The cross talk and precision resistance routines have
	  been installed and compiled on the DA laptop, and tested
	  with existing data.  The GPIB and IO cards have been
	  installed, and we have been able to communicate between
	  the laptop and the new Tek scope as well as the new
	  Keithley micro Ohmmeter.  John Lindner will have to work 
	  out the problems of incorporating the new scope and 
	  Ohmmeter VI's and IO interface into the existing
	  CrossTalk and Phred VI's.

*) The pincarriers will be cleaned in acetone and alcohol in
   the physics fume hood on the roof.  We now have a key
   to access that room.

*) Greg is still working on the design for the heater plate
   copper shunts for the HEC LV warm cables.

*) Pof had a couple of phone conversations with Tom Muller
   this week.  Glasseal has lost production time due to
   some work in the plating area, and also because they were
   building only 7-row pincarriers (no 8-row) while Pete Tardiff
   was away.  Glasseal is expected to ship 24 more pincarriers
   to UVIC by the end of this week (they were shipped out on
   Friday 17 Aug).  The following batch of 24 will go to BNL,
   then the next 24 to UVIC again.

   Several of the BNL crew (Tom, Bob, David, some techs) will be 
   at CERN next week to check out the reception of the first four 
   feedthroughs that they shipped.  Tom and Bob will stay only
   for the week, but will return for a longer stay 21 September,
   hopefully to begin installation.

*) A few more tasks require completion before we can ship the
   first four feedthroughs to CERN:

	- Purchase 15g and 25g shockwatch and labels -> AD
	- Complete the database 'final summary report' -> GV
	- Final design and construction of exterior 
	  shipping crate -> PB
	- give name of CERN contact persons for reception and
	  customs papers to Simon of King Brothers -> pof (done)

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- TRIUMF lab cleanup progress
- Heater plate wiring
- Plans for the week
- AOB