Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 16 December 2003.
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Present: Pof, PB, ML, MarkL, FH

*) The inventory of parts left over from feedthrough construction is
   nearly complete.  Parts will be organized into three categories:
   1) definitely good, 2) definitely NOT good, and 3) possibly good, 
   but requires further testing.  The parts will be consolidated as
   much as possible, and stored on the existing shelving at the SE
   corner of the ft lab along with the electrical testing apparatus.
   The IBM laptop will also be stored along with the test apparatus.
   The shelves will be covered with a plastic sheet to prevent the
   parts being pilfered.  The spare parts should be kept available 
   for possible use for feedthrough repair at least until both endcaps 
   are lowered into the pit and shown to be operational.  We have 
   enough spare parts to build one Standard or one Special feedthrough.

*) The ft leak check station can be considered to be a general purpose
   apparatus and should remain intact until the endcaps are lowered
   into the pit and shown to be operational.  This does not preclude
   the leak check station from being used for other purposes.

*) The three crates of apparatus used at CERN for reception and
   post-weld testing arrived back at UVIC on Wednesday 17 Dec.

*) All relevant data in the MS Access feedthrough database should be
   dumped to flat file so there is no danger of not being able to
   read the data when MS Access is no longer supported.  The unix
   web pages which access the feedthrough data will be modified
   to read the flat file, rather than the MS Access database.
   All test data which are kept in tarball (.tar.gz) format and 
   accessed by the feedthrough web pages to display test pulses 
   should be backed up on DVD.
   
*) The Balzers HLT 160 leak checker is kaput again.  The error
   message displayed by the leak checker will be investigated
   by PB when time permits.

*) There was a short discussion of the feedthrough paper to be
   written in cooperation with the BNL group.  The goal is to have
   a first draft completed by the end of January.