The advice on the above technique is well taken. Knowing myself as I do I'll need to organize the time to prepare. I'm not sure how soon that will be at this point but will maintain communication on anything further. I did talk to a friend yesterday that recently completed his commercial M12 Trench conversion. He mentioned something I found interesting in that the East Taylor M12 adapter didn't fit as well as the M97 adapter which he ended up using. I haven't seen the conversion yet but will this afternoon and I'll try take a few photos of his conversion to post later.

Dick