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|                    The GSA Presents                      ||
|              The Permanent Magnet Factory !              ||
|               Tuesday, April 28, 5:00 pm.                ||
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Yes, the GSA tour series has had a brief hiatus, but we're 
ready to rock and roll once again.  This coming Tuesday,
we're going to tour the Permanent Magnet Factory.  Your host
for the tour will be none other than Bill Foster (you may
remember him from such Tevatron University productions
as "The Superconducting Cheapercollider"), so you don't want
to miss this tour!

Bill describes the tour thus:

The Permanent Magnet Factory for the Recycler ring is in the 
prime of its life, currently kicking out 3.5 magnets per day 
of the 400 magnets needed for the Recycler Ring.  The factory 
contains assembly tooling, parts storage, a magnetization/test 
fixture, a humangous refrigerator which can freeze 18 magnets 
overnight, and a magnetic measurement/test stand.  The permanent 
magnet factory is normally staffed by 12-15 personnel who will 
not be there to hurl working-class abuse at you during your tour.  
Well behaved tour group members may qualify to receive a piece of 
ferrite permanent magnet material capable of holding a telephone 
book to the refrigerator or wiping out everyone's credit cards 
at a party.


By now you must be asking how you get there:

Directions: Simplest way is to go north from the Eola Road 
stopsign, then left at the main drag along the beam lines 
that runs towards the hi-rise and (I think that it is called 
Road A or Road A-1).  Anyway, the Meson Lab (the big fruity 
building with the curved roof) is on your right as you proceed 
back towards the hi rise.  Just downstream from the Meson Lab
are a matched pair of blue industrial buildings.  MP-9 is the 
closeset one of these to the road and there is a parking lot 
on the near side of the building.

So standard operating procedure applies, kids.  We'll meet in 
the parking lot at 5:00 and start the tour shortly thereafter.

Hope to see you there, and, by the by, don't bring any credit 
cards...

                                         --- Kevin P. Davis
                                             for the GSA