Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 17 September, 2001.
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Present: Pof, GV, AD, FH, PB, JL, RKK, CJO

*) Milestones

	- ft15 (our last HEC for ECC) is nearly cabled and
	  should be welded sometime this week.

	- ft01 (after its repair and retesting) and ft14 (our
	  3rd Special) are ready to be crated.

	- The dye-pentrate shed (christened room number 021b...) 
	  has been plumbed into the building's ventilation system
	  today (by UVIC Facilities Management) and is now
	  ready for use.

	- Construction of the second 64-pin straightener, for use 
	  at CERN, has been finished by Greg.

	- The pincarrier cooler leak has been repaired and the
	  cooler is now back in business.

	- The electrical test cart to hold the CERN reception 
	  and post-weld electrical test equipment is finished.

*) Horst Oberlac, the LARG convener, will be visiting UVIC
   next Monday and Tuesday 24,25 September.  He will attend 
   the regular Monday morning ft meeting, followed at 11:00  
   by a more specific meeting to discuss such issues as ft
   construction status, schedule, and difficulties.  The 
   overall Cryostat and Cryogenics schedules will also be
   discussed, as well as a projected ASSO review.  Horst will
   tour the ft shop and related labs at 13:30 on Monday.

*) The material for the outer shipping crate to hold the four
   ft coffins has been cut and is ready for assembly.  We will 
   not ship the four feedthroughs until after Horst's visit
   on Monday.

*) The 'suspect' pincarrier that showed a leak which has
   subsequently gone away will be cold cycled five more times
   (in addition to the usual three), with leak checks after 
   each cycle.  If all leak checks pass, then the pincarrier 
   will be considered passed, but should be used in a warm 
   flange only.  This recipe should be followed for all future 
   suspect pincarriers.   

*) PB, JL, and Pof will depart for CERN on 5 October.  PB
   will return on 19 October, Pof will return on 2 November,
   and JL will depart CERN (for the UK) on 14 December, and
   return to Canada on 21 December.  AD and GV will spend
   three weeks each at CERN following Pof's return.

*) The leak-check manifold to be used at CERN should be fully
   checked out by the end of this week, ready to be shipped to
   CERN before PB, JL, and Pof depart for CERN.

*) There remain problems running the electrical test VI's on
   the Toshiba laptop to be used at CERN, with the computer
   crashing (to the blue screen of death) regularly while 
   attempting to run the VI's.  The problem has been isolated
   to the either the GPIB card (the I/O card seems to be ok) 
   or the Toshiba laptop.  John will try running the VI's on
   Jan's IBM laptop as a further test.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- status of CERN vacuum test setup
- status of CERN electrical test setup
- shipping plans for ft's and test setups
- ambient flange heater construction
- Plans for the week
- AOB