IB2  Endcap Muon Chamber Meeting
Below are the minutes for the Endcap Muon Chamber Meeting. If you find errors or
wish to correct them, please contact me at apollina@fnal.gov.

Chamber Drawing Status
    Vladislav presented the status of the Me234/4 chamber drawings. He explained some of the details that he has been working on. Mostly he corrected small mistakes, and concentrated on decreasing the number of different parts through simplification of the design. For example, we will have only 7 types of different gap bars, instead of the 9 used in P1.
    There is a total of 83 drawings for these chambers. 85% of them are complete. Vladislav is working on the remaining 15%, which comprises two brand-new assembly drawings. All the drawings are backup on the server.
    The end of August still seems like a reasonable date for the completion of this job and Pete will get the package from Vladislav to start assigning Fermilab Part Numbers.
    By mid October Vladislav will receive the drawings for the PNPI chambers (ME2/1,ME3/1,ME4/1) and he will start working on them, with the goal of finalizing them in 1-2 months (end of December).

Winding Machine
    John Korienek didn't come to the meeting to report on the status of the winding machine. The responsibility for the commissioning and setup of the winding machine has been assigned to Jon Bloumquist and Jon is supposed to meet with Oleg on Wednesday to finalize the modifications (if any) to make on the machine.

MP9 Move-in Plan
    It was agreed that the following equipment could move to MP9 starting on Monday 8/24/98. We should try to stick to the following schedule to keep the tools under control and have the available and appropriate experts on site:

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday  The winding machine will be moved as soon as it is operational.
 

Lab 8 activities
    Panels Lifting and Handling
       Phyllis discussed the existence of 2 vendors to provide the lifting fixtures to move the panels from the boxes to the Axxion and Gerber machine. One of them (Great Lakes) will be here on september 3rd for a demonstration. The other vendor is Unimove, and Phyllis will try to setup a get-together time. The goal is to make a decision by the end of September.

 Panels Grooving
       Yuri presented some cross-section pictures he has been taking of the FR4 material (for the moment he used some D0 FR4, which is approximately 0.5mm thick). He noticed that the glass fibers are exposed even for a very shallow cut of the copper. He actually noticed that, given the FR4 structure, there is no "buffering zone" between the copper and the FR4.  He suggested that even making a 10 mils deep cut (instead of the 4 or 6 mils presently used) would not expose more fiber than what is already done, with the advantage of avoiding any "skip" during operation on the Gerber machine. The only objection from Oleg was that the mechanical structure of the panel would be weakened.
Panels Cleaning Needs - Wires situation (D0 experience)
    We decided to call up  specific meeting for the Panel Cleaning situation and the Wires D0 experience. These meetings will be setup in the future.

Cosmic Test Setup
    The Fermilab drawings for the Cosmic Ray setup have been completed.  Probably they will be sent to Wisconsin for the safety review. Procurement will start afterward.

Production Cart
    The drawings for the production cart are ready. Procurement can start.

 

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