[emilecantin]

$125 motor? What are you talking about?

The kit costs $525, and yes you need to supply a trim router (they recommend the Dewalt DWP611 which I paid $269 CAD for, but members of the community have successfully used other ones) which you might already have.

You also need to build a frame, or add anchors to your shop floor. This can run you from a few tens of dollars for concrete anchors to $300+ if you want to build something fancier.

[buildsjets]

A Dewalt DWP611 costs me $128.99 USD with free shipping and it can be on my doorstop by 4AM.

I’m sorry that you live in a country with an economy is managed such that that the same motor costs you more than double, but you are the outlier in this dataset.

Maybe next year when the tariffs kick in, we in the US can be lucky enough to pay 269 USD for something that costs 129 USD currently.

https://a.co/d/6LVfRAI

[emilecantin]

Oh okay, you call routers "motors"; that's what threw me off.

But yeah, price-gouging in Canada is nothing new; even factoring exchange rates it should be ~180 CAD.

[davidlang]

There are also people using the cheap chinese spindles instead of the Dewalt router. any spindle <67mm diameter at least 4" long can be made to work by putting a sleeve on it.