Feedthrough Meeting 05/09/97

present:  P. Birney, M. Fincke-Keeler, R. Keeler, 
          R. Langstaff, M. Lefebvre, P. Poffenberger

- FEA
  Michel to include Terry's latest fea results in the LaTeX 
  document.
  Terry is now studying the pressures to use for final fea.
  The goal is to have the final fea ready for the October
  review.

- Drawings
  Roy has been in contact with J. Farell at BNL.  A complete
  set of drawings will soon be in Roy's hand.
  We should print some of them for the GSC visit.

- GSC Visit
  1- Roy/Terry's work in Roy's room
     - HEC work
     - Feedthrough fea work:  Michel to discuss with Terry
       on the choice of 6 fea plots to be mounted on a 
       poster
  2- Atlas lab
     - Margret and Michel have met with Michael Rensing.
       A lot of junk will be removed from the lab.
       Michel and Margret to organise the Atlas side in view
       of the visit, including a few posters.
       Paul to produce one or two nice posters for the 
       proposed leak test station.

- Vacuum cables
  Michel to remind Radeka and Makowiecki to tell us what is
  the stripline length tolerance. [Done].

- Review
  A feedthrough review will be held in CERN on October 13th,
  followed by two days of cryostats reviews.
  Margret, Terry, Roy and Michel will attend.
  Margret travels:  6th - 16th
  Michel  travels:  3th - 19th

  Richard pointed out the review committee report of the June review
  is not suitable for distribution to NSERC.  
  Michel to ask Werner Witzeling if the review report could be looked
  at by us before its release.
  Richard to point out to Michel what part of the last review report
  causes trouble, to be shown to Werner.

  The main points to be presented at the review:
  - FEA
    Terry on
        - the cold cable vs current
        - cooling of equipped flanges
        - updated fea with agreed pressures

  - Vacuum cable
        - Margret on progress report of current work and plans

  - Pigtail order
        - Margret on current understanding of the pigtail
          requirements and pending questions.

  - Cost estimates
        - Michel to coordinate with dave Rahm what to present

  - Project management
        - Michel will do his best, not clear what is desired

  - Procurement procedure and schedule
        - Michel to present the currently assumed schenario for
          the pin carriers and the pigtails.
        - Limit dates to be emphasised.

  - QAP, assembly procedures, testing procedures under study.

- Welding
  Paul to contact the TRIUMF welder for information

- Purchase requisition
  Paul to prepare purchase requisitions for vacuum hardware.
  A total of $18,600 is currently budgeted for temperature probes and
  misc vacuum hardware before April 1st 1998...

  Pof to find out the delivery time for the scroll pump.  We will delay
  this purchase until further understanding of our expenses is 
  reached.

- Leak test station
  Paul presented drawings with details of the pig tail bucket attachment

- Richard mentioned that the RGA equipment is going back to TRIUMF.

- ATLAS meetings dates:
  - Sep 08 - Sep 12  :  Standard ATLAS week
  - Sep 15           :  GSC visit to UVic
  - Oct 06 - Oct 10  :  LARG week
  - Oct 13 - Oct 15  :  Feedthrough and Cryostats Review 
  - Nov 17 - Nov 21  :  Overview ATLAS week
  - Dec 08 - Dec 12  :  LARG week