@Tshulthise - Right now, the the machine is priced a little too low but we probably won’t increase the price until we’re close to being “in stock”. We’ll make an announcement before we bump it up.
And you’re right about 883 support continuing. We have a shelf of spare parts that should last us for years and the next Carbide Motion release, probably in about a week, will have some nice features for the 883 as well.
We’ve experimented with the next spindle motor up from what we have, which is about 40% more powerful, but it wasn’t a big improvement. I think we’ll continue to do spindle R&D but at this point, it isn’t clear that we have anything that would be worth the upgrade.
I can’t promise that we’d be able to do a drop-in replacement but I think we’d go out of our way to try. The new Z-axis design in the Pro is a more user-serviceable than the “Classic” version so we’d want to take advantage of that. Again, this is theoretical since we don’t have anything on the drawing board right now.
Rob