The folks at Fittings Inc were great, spent about 15 minutes on the phone with me for what they must have realized early on was a non money making event for them. After helping me figure out the parameters of metric fittings and specifying the exact part number of one item I need, they directed me to contact their partner, Adapt All, directly. I still need to flesh out the metric side of what I'm trying to adapt, but Adapt All has a lot of metric to US adapters and a website that helps explain the metric standards. Thanks Charlie for suggesting Fittings Inc. they are nice folks.
Max

http://www.adaptall.com/index.html