Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 4 November, 2002.
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Present: Pof, PB, FH, ML

*) Milestones:

	- Congratulatory notes have been received by Michel on
	  the completion of the endcap signal feedthrough construction
	  from a number of fellow ATLAS-ites, including Chris Oram, 
	  Georges Azuelos, Laurent Serin, Balazs Szeless, Peter Jenni,
	  Rob McPherson, Manuella Vincter, and Daniel Fournier.

*) Shipping crates should be made for the FCAL and the four remaining
   Standard / Special feedthroughs.  The FCAL crate can be made
   ready for shipping, but one Standard feedthrough should be left
   out for show-and-tell over the next month or two.  All five 
   feedthroughs are expected to be shipped in January or February
   of next year while Fiona and pof are at CERN for installation.

*) Neil is working on a number of devices to assist in warm cable
   installation and post-installation crosstalk tests.  These
   devices are:
	1) a bent-pin indicator, to give early warning of bent
	   pins while installing a warm cable.
	2) a cross-channel-short indicator, to check for cross-
	   channel shorts in the warm cable after installation,
	   since the warm cables have the same connector as the
	   vacuum cables which were prone to cross-channel shorts
	   after installation.
	3) a pigtail ATI / baseplane interface for use during the
	   post-installation cross talk tests; BNL was using a
	   warm cable for their TDR test interface, which caused
	   problems since the warm cables are not designed to
	   stand up to many plugins.

*) Another small package of pigtails has arrived, but has not
   yet been opened.

*) Fiona and pof have compiled a shopping list of items to have
   at CERN during feedthrough installation and testing; Fiona
   will indulge in her favourite pastime procuring the items
   on the list.

*) Fiona and pof will work on finalizing the inventory of spare
   feedthrough parts, and organizing the spare parts with regards 
   to which parts are good, which are suspect or not tested, and 
   which are bad and not usable.  The parts list will eventually
   be made public, with some parts (yet to be determined) to be
   made available for sale to other groups.   Doug Bryman's group
   at TRIUMF has already expressed interest in our pincarriers
   and vacuum cables, and have been provided three vacuum cables
   (one FCI prototype, one failed FCI, and one CRPP) on loan
   for evaluation.

*) Fiona and pof will likely be at CERN during January and
   February to assist in feedthrough installation, warm cable
   installation, and post-installation cross talk tests.
   The ECC schedule still shows December 2 as the start date
   for feedthrough installation, so Michel will write to Pierre
   and Aboud to request a joint statement clarifying whether 
   that date is still realistic.  If it is (unlikely...), then
   travel plans must be made by the end of this week in order
   to be at CERN early December to assist in the installation. 

*) Michel will present a few slides at the upcoming LARG week
   highlighting the completion of the endcap signal feedthrough
   construction, as well as the status of feedthrough deliveries and
   testing at CERN and our plans to assist in feedthrough installation
   and post-installation testing.

*) Patrick Fassnachtf has written to Michel and pof that the cold
   flanges of some of the barrel feedthroughs are to be vacuumed,
   after discovery of some "dust" on a cold flange on inspection
   with an endoscope.  Michel responded that the endcap feedthroughs
   have been "produced in a 'clean' environment", and that "there is 
   some worry that attempting to clean the inside of the cold funnel 
   might damage pigtails".  Pof sugested that if the cold flanges
   must be vacuumed, then some attempt should be made to trap the
   debris being vacuumed so that it can be examined and a decision
   made whether or not further vacuuming is warranted.

*) Feedthrough meetings will continue for now on a weekly basis, but 
   we will soon change to an 'as needed' basis.

Agenda for next week
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- AOB