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When I bought my router table, I remember reading a lot of articles about lifts not being worth it due to lack of repeatability / slop in most of the DIY and cheap mechanisms unless you bought the $500> lifts. I'd be curious if this had a similar issue. I went with the Bosch table without a lift for $169 US, and it's nice that I can put it under my bench when I'm not using it. I use it with the fixed base on my DW612, which means I can move just the powerhead to the plunge base when I don't need the router table, so I've only had to buy one router. Works pretty well, and the Bosch comes with a whole bunch of options for jointing and workholding as well.