Pinball Machine Restoring History

This story begins roughly a year ago, when my sister moved into an anti-squat residence in The Hague.
Strange things happen at anti-squat buildings. One of them is objects lose their owner. In said anti-squat there were for instance many movie props of the WW2 film Blackbook (Paul Verhoeven). These contained bookshelfs, signs, waiting houses, statues, images and flags, coffins, cell doors, and even a motorbike. All these props were standing idle for a long time, until they were split among residents.
There were also several chairs and couches that lost their owner. Whoever had gotten them, had put them in the canteen, then moved out but leaving the couch to the next user. The next user doesn't take responsibility, and so they become unowned.

Another item was a Pinball Machine, a real one. It was called Pinbot, and apparently broken. A previous owner had attempted to repair it, and failed. The table was left open (= without glass plate) for a year. When the antisquat had to be cleared, we got the table and decided to fix it.

On Saturday, June 14th, the table really became ours. After we moved my sister out of the anti-squat, we got to take the table. As there was no time for us to drive it all the way home and still deliver the truck on time, we had to park it in my grandmother's basement. We promised to pick it up next week.
On the 21st we were unfortunately way too busy to move to grandma. And we couldn't rent a trailer.
On the 28th we couldn't rent a trailer either, but we tried to get it into the car anyway. We drove all the way to grandma, picked up the mighty heavy table, dragged it to the car; and found out it didn't fit. We also broke a car fan in the process.
Finally, by the 5th of July, we managed to rent a large trailer and picked up the machine.

We've installed it onto its legs (it was left legless in the antisquat) and are doing our best to restore it. This blog contains a diary of the repairs.