Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 25 March, 2002.
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Present: Pof, FH, PB, AD, WW, RKK

*) Milestones:

	- ft32 xtalk and resistance final tests finished

	- ft33 xtalk final tests done

	- ft34 was cabled, welded, and cold tested

	- cabling of ft35 has started

	- three more flanges were welded

	- 23 T50 pigtails arrived on 19 March; we now have
	  enough pigtails to build the next (ft36) HEC feedthrough.
	  The pigtails for the second FCAL are probably still
	  at least a month away.

	- testing of pincarriers continues; roughly two more
	  months to finish all pc's including spares.

	- ECC arrived at CERN on Wednesday 20 March!

*) Storage space at CERN for feedthroughs is becoming scarce,
   so we will not ship any further ft's to CERN (except for
   the next HEC and FCAL) until most or all of the ECC ft's
   are installed.  In the meantime, we will pack the ft's still
   at UVIC in shipping crates (usually in sets of four) and
   store them in the TRIUMF lab (021).

*) Most of the defective vacuum cables (opposite channel shorts
   inside the connector) have been from the batch of 438 cables
   that arrived on 27 November 2000.  Approximately half of
   those cables have been used so far, but no cables from that
   batch have been used since the problems encountered with
   ft24 and ft25 (both feedthroughs had to be opened to replace
   defective vacuum cables).  After the HEC ft36 is built, the
   next several Standard and Special feedthroughs will be built
   exclusively with vacuum cables from the 27 November batch.
   This strategy will hopefully minimize the number of feedthroughs
   which need to be cut open for replacement of defective vacuum 
   cables (we'd rather open one feedthrough to replace two bad
   vacuum cables than open two feedthroughs to replace one bad
   vacuum cable in each...).  PB should stock up on dremel bits.

Agenda for next week (Tuesday 2 April 11:00 - NOTE the late start time!)
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- Milestones
- Plans for the April LARG and ASSO week
- Plans for the week
- AOB