Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 6 May, 2002.
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Present: Pof, FH, PB, WW, RKK

*) Milestones:

	- The bellows of ft39 has been removed and the
	  vacuum cables extracted.  Removal of the funnel
	  for extraction of the pigtail cables is still
	  in progress.  ft39 had failed its ambient leak test
	  last week with a 7.5 10^-9 mbar-l/s leak in the
	  cold flange.

	- ft40 was welded and passed its cold tests.

	- ft41 cabling was finished and was also welded.
	  Cold tests of ft41 were done today (Monday 6 May);
	  there was a short between two opposite channels
	  (23 and 24) on slot 6.  This is the classic failure
	  mode of many of the vacuum cables from the 27 November
	  2000 batch, from which this feedthrough was made.
	  All other tests passed.  The bellows will be removed
	  and the offending vacuum cable(s) replaced.

	- Two flanges were welded.  There remain only two
	  more pair of flanges to weld to reach a total
	  of 55 pairs, plus one more cold flange to replace
	  the failed cold flange of ft39.

	- The 155 pigtails that arrived 23 April have all been
	  processed.  One of the pigtails arrived with no
	  label on either the ATI or micro-D connector, although
	  the box it was contained in was labeled with S/N 5877.  
	  Pof has asked Laurent Serin if the cable should be
	  returned to Axon.  There remain only 71 pigtails to
	  come (12 T47, 28 T48, 1 T49, 30 T52) plus one 
	  (T48 S/N 6194) that was returned earlier to Axon for 
	  repair.

*) Paul Birney will be traveling to CERN for a period of two
   weeks to assist Aboud with feedthrough installation preparation
   work.  The date of Paul's departure is tentatively set at 
   21 June.  Fiona, Wendy, and pof will be going to CERN, tentatively
   on 2 July, to assist Aboud with feedthrough installation.  Fiona
   will remain at CERN for six to eight weeks, while Wendy and pof
   will return after two weeks.

*) Neil is putting the "Mate & Lock" connectors onto the power
   lines of the ambient flange heaters.  The connection of the
   RJ11 plugs to the RTD's require that a short length of solid
   24 AWG wire be soldered onto the end of the RTD wires in order
   that a reliable crimp connection be made to the RJ11.  An order 
   has been placed (Tuesday 7 May) with BAY Associates for 250 feet
   of solid 24 AWG insulated with Kapton wrap to a final OD of
   0.040 inches.  Delivery time is two weeks.  Appropriate sized
   stripping tools (No-Nik) have also been ordered.  A testing
   station for the ambient flange heaters has been designed, but
   must still be built.

Agenda for next week
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- Milestones
- Plans for the week
- AOB