Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 14 January, 2002.
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Present: Pof, GV, FH, PB, ML

*) Milestones

	- pincarriers continue to be cycled, at least 
	  two months backlog remain to be cycled and
	  tested.

	- ft25 was welded and cold cycled; the cold
	  electrical tests failed with an "opposite
	  channel" short between channels 49 and 50
	  in slot 11.  The previous feedthrough, ft24,
	  also had failed in a similar manner.  ft25
	  will be left in the cold test station and
	  cold cycled and cirris tested several times
	  to check how reproducible the failure is, and
	  whether or not any further failures occur.

	- Two warm and two cold flanges were welded,
	  and a replacement pincarrier was welded into
	  another cold flange to replace the pincarrier
	  that had gold in one of the glass beads.  We
	  currently have in hand a stock of five pair 
	  of flanges.

*) ft24, which failed the cold electrical test with an
   "opposite channel" short between channels 13 and 14 
   of slot 4, was opened after several days of carefully
   grinding the seal-ring/warm-flange and cuff-ring/cold-flange
   welds by PB with a dremmel.  The vacuum cables in slots 
   4A and 4B will both be replaced, even though it is
   likely from the test results that 4A is the culprit.

*) Greg has announced that he has been offered (and has
   accepted) a permanent position in the physics machine
   shop at the University of Toronto.  Greg will be wrapping
   up his work with us by the end of January.

Agenda for next week
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- Milestones
- ft25 cold cycling tests
- plans for further cold test monitoring
  of shorts during cool down
- plans for the week
- AOB