Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 24 September, 2001.
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Present: Pof, GV, AD, FH, PB, JL, RKK, ML, MGF, ASD, HO

*) Milestones

	- ft 15, the last ECC HEC ft, has been welded and
	  leak checked warm.  It will be cold tested this
	  week.

	- four ft's (ft00 -> ft03, all Standard) are crated 
	  and ready to be shipped later this week.

*) The shipping summary sheets, itemizing all component
   serial numbers (obtained from the database) for each 
   feedthrough, have been finished.

*) The last of the 27 August batch of pincarriers have finished
   their cold cycles, with the exception of the 'pseudo-leaker'
   (showed a leak in the past, but the leak is no longer 
   reproducible) which will undergo five additional cold cycles
   and leak checks.

*) Three 'spare' pincarriers (2 * 7-row + 1 * 8-row) were 
   shipped from Glasseal (arrived 26 Sept).  The two 7-row
   might already be spoken for since two of the 7-rows
   from the 27 August batch have one pin each which are
   covered with gold at the glass bead, and the 'pseudo-leaker'
   might again fail (which would leave us short again of
   7-row pincarriers).  It is interesting to note that both 
   of the pins with the gold plating are located at the extreme 
   end of a row.  An RMA was requested from Peter Tardiff of
   Glasseal for the first pincarrier found with a gold plated
   glass bead (the second had not been found yet) but no
   word has been received back.

*) Two flanges (one warm and one cold) are to be welded
   this week, to be used for ft16 (the FCAL).

*) The CERN leak check manifold has been leak checked and is
   now in the process of being stuffed into the shipping
   crate built by Dave.  It is to shipped sometime next week.
   Dave Pate (BNL's resident technician at CERN) has informed
   us that CERN will be providing a 500 l/sec turbo for the
   manifold.

*) Neil is building the ambient flange heaters using the 
   instructions and jig made by Mark.  The first to be built
   will be examined carefully by Mark, PB, and Pof before
   proceeding with the others.  Once the connector for the
   heater power and temperature probe has finally been specified
   by BNL (a meeting on this is scheduled at the October LARG
   week) a test jig will be built to allow testing of the
   temperature probes and heater wiring.

*) The feedthrough protector plates to be installed over the
   warm flages (bolted to the bolt rings) after installation
   of the feedthroughs on the cryostat will be made of 12 mm
   plexiglass.  These will be made either by our crew or
   by Dave Smith.

*) The new Toshiba laptop that was to be used at CERN has been
   swapped with Jan's old IBM 570 Thinkpad, since the IBM doesn't
   have the same bug as the Toshiba which caused it to crash
   into blue-screen-of-death mode frequently while communicating
   through the GPIB card.  There might be a Swiss power cord
   for the IBM in the OPAL office at CERN.

*) Greg and John will go on a shopping trip this week to obtain
   various odds and ends required for the tests at CERN.  Tack
   mats and a shoe brush have been ordered to keep the ft shop
   clean.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- pincarrier stock/status
- shipping plans for test equipment
- plans for LARG week
- plans for the week
- AOB