I bought this book because I was thinking about buying & restoring a machine from my youth. Reading this book though, completely put me off the idea!
This might have been a good thing. So i'm a bit ambivalent whether a book should encourage an idea or reveal the pitfalls you might meet. Somebody else could come to a different conclusion. The book is quite well illustrated and there's lots of information. The best advice was to buy an already restored machine and tinker with that. Always cheaper than doing it all oneself!