How to repair your Canon Ixus

I noticed a link to this article in Handelsblatt (I think, today I can’t find it again) the day before yesterday. The article is very detailed with lots of photos and I’m sure that if you are good with a very small screwdriver, you can indeed save the 260 Euro that you pay to have a professional fix dirt in the focusing mechanism. But I was still pretty gobsmacked at the statement with the original link, that using this article you would have the camera fixed in a matter of minutes – some people must be a lot better with their fingers than I am.