Re: Where we stand right now

[Peter Kammel <kammel@npl.uiuc.edu>]

Dear Larry,

Just returning from the experiment, I can understand your feelings 
regarding the work overload and the need for vacation.
But at least, MiniBoone made it to the cover of the latest CERN Courier...

Well, with conceptual design I mean
  - a complete AutoCad dwg including all parts of the construction
    (without detailing the parts to the level of workshop drawings)
  - of course some renderings would be nice, but we can do that ourselves
    after getting Rick's dwg's.

After that we would review it here and immediately contact machine shops
to find out the time required for manufacturing.

We should have the finished parts at UIUC mid September.
Then we could assemble the detectors here and ship them so that they 
arrive at PSI mid October.
This is already stretching the schedule, to give everybody more time.
We have to start mounting the complete detector at PSI
starting Oct 14, at the latest. 

Apart from the time required for finishing the conceptual design, the
biggest uncertainty is the production of the parts. The conceptual
design is really on the critical path here, because we need it to
start a meaningful discussion with machine shops and secure a slot
for this job in their schedule.

Thanks for yours and Rick's efforts

With best regards

Peter



On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Larry Bartoszek wrote:

> Dear Peter,
> 
>      I received your information.  Sorry for not responding sooner but I am
> in the middle of installing the MiniBooNE horn at Fermilab.  I have been
> working 12 hour days, six days a week, similar to the effort required to
> install the G0 magnet at JLab.  This will continue for me until mid August,
> at which point I go on vacation until the end of August.
>      Rick is doing the work of creating the frame for you with some guidance
> from me.  What I need from you is now that you have core-dumped most if not
> all of the information that we need to do this job, what is the real
> deadline?  When you talk about finishing the conceptual design, I interpret
> that to mean that you want to see some jpegs of rendered images of what the
> structure will look like.  When do you want to see these images?  How much
> time do we have to go from right now to an installed object on the floor in
> Switzerland, or breaking that down closer to home, when do parts need to be
> at UIUC for packaging?
>      I can't promise any miracles here.  My bag o' miracles is just about
> empty since I've been pulling them for you and others all year.  Looking
> forward to hearing from you.
> 
>                        Ciao,
>                        Larry
> 
> Bartoszek Engineering-- www.bartoszekeng.com
> 

Peter Kammel  /  pkammel@uiuc.edu
Department of Physics, Loomis Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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