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I'm posting this as a general hardware question, if it doesn't belong here please feel free to move the thread.

I'm planning on building a SFF ITX desktop with a PicoPSU. Most of the bricks used are HP/Dell/Generics/Etc... I was wondering if anyone here has ever hooked up an IBM brick to a picoPSU. obviously it can be done through wiring, but are there any plugs that are threded on the outside so you can mount them on a case? I was planning on using one of the 20v bricks for the T60/X60... Is the IBM barrel plugs on these standerdized so I can purchase one with threading?

Thank you.

There are lots of different PicoPSU models, which one?
And I don't understand your questions about "threading".
Explain in more detail please.

I was looking at the pico-PSU-120WI-25V
As for threading, the power recepticle on most TP's (the ones I have worked on) are just a square that fits into the TP casing. What I am looking for is one that has the outside of the plug threaded, so the receptacle can be placed through a hole in the casing and srewed down to plug into.
Like this:
http://www.mouser.com/images/microsites ... DCplug.png

Never seen a different T6x DC socket other than this:

You could drill a hole in one side of the corner for the round plug, and in the other side of the corner you drill a small hole for the screw that holds the DC socket.
Problem solved.
Alternatively you could cut off the DC-plug from the adapter and replace it with one that will fit whatever threaded socket/plug you can find.
The center pin is only for the Thinkpad to let it know what type (65W or 90W) it is. (1 blue wire)
+ is the inner tubing from the circular hole. (2 red wires)
- is the outer tubing from the circular hole. (2 black wires)
Yet another option that I use to run Lenovo Ideapads/Essentials with the smaller DC-connector:
get a T6x DC connector as above, remove the white plug and connect the wires to a plug with a 2.5mm center as used on 16V/72W T4x adapters.
Check out this shop for other connectors: http://www.mossmktg.com/dc-input-jacks-plugs

picoPSU comes with 5.5 / 2.5 mm inlet. Perhaps the most common barrel connector in all consumer electronics. ThinkPads before α60 used 16 V through that connector. Lenovo 3000 and Ideapad used that connector. Gateway, Acer, ASUS, Compaq, Dell, Motion, Averatec, Panasonic, IBM, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Siemens, Sager, Medion, Toshiba, eMachines, HP, Samsung, NEC, Apple, and doubtless others (I do not know about JVC and Benq) used that connector.

I want to draw attention to the fact, even HP did in fact use this plug, in their own models. I am not referring to things after HP buyout, those which were double-branded with Compaq logo.

With so many legitimate AC adapters to choose from, why bother finding a awkward Lenovo signal plug?

(I am not merely assuming. I did use one picoPSU-WI with IBM ThinkPad 16-volt supply.)

2016-09-11 edit : add Apple, thank you Gough