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🔧 New Optional Mod: Skeletor MK7 Topless Strain Relief & Tophat
🕑 Added 2025-09-08 18:00:10 +0000 UTCCleaner routing, simpler cable management — chain delete recommended.
Meet the newest optional add-on for Skeletor MK7: a topless strain relief paired with a carriage-mounted Tophat to keep your toolhead wiring neat and repeatable. It’s intended to delete the cable chain for smoother motion and easier maintenance (keeping the chain is possible in some setups—details in the guide).
⚠️ Important for HDM rail users
If you’re running the HDM rail mod, you must be on the Skeletor X-Carriage for HDM rails updated after September 1st.
Older HDM X-Carriage versions are not compatible with this mod.
As of this post, the updated X-Carriage has not yet hit the HDM Google Drive. The files were sent to the HDM team; I didn’t want to delay this release any further, and they should be available soon.
This mod is an add-on to Skeletor MK7 and assumes you’ve already worked through a MK7 setup/usage guide. For context and best results, please review at least one Skeletor MK7 guide first.
Example: https://www.patreon.com/posts/135353871
🔗 Recommended chain-delete riser option
RetroD Risers on Cults:
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/k1-max-risers-with-cable-chain-mod
This mod also supports other riser options, the Retro Risers are just my preferred model.
🛒 Buy / Support
Get the Topless Strain Relief & Tophat here:
https://www.tbkmaker.shop/store/p/mk7topless
💸 Discounts & Member Perks
This update is eligible for the same discounts and offers as other Skeletor mods. Details here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/133792947
Members in higher tiers also have the optional ability to submit to the Digital File Request form (see your tier-specific post for details).
Your direct support truly keeps this project moving—thank you. 🙏
Comments
tbkMAKER
Please follow the link in the guide and join the discord. There you can make a post showing what skeletor you currently have and I should be able to quickly sort out what you need/dont need. If you've already purchase skeletor, and did so a while ago, then you're set. You already have everything you need to get skeletor working. Anything else that has been "updated" was either quality of life or organization, nothing critical was changed.
Clarence McCray
I bought the skeletor 7 a while ago but I've seen some things have changed I'm not quite sure now with the print and what not to print. I don't have the photographer although that might be an option. What should I be printing out of the kit for the k1 Max.
tbkMAKER
At this current time I do not, but you can purchase a physical copy of skeletor from one of my authorized resellers: http://mk7.printsbyrad.xyz/ I am not sure what they are going to be doing yet in regards to the new Topless Strain Relief and Tophat.
Clarence McCray
Do you sell this as a "Printed" option?
