Thanks for the offer, might need to go for that if all else fails. I recommended it and purchased it for a friend, it broke first time out and he doesn't want it now so I'm stuck with it.
Beginning to think buying a used aeg is not worth the hassle. I have a masada with a buggered gearbox, an mp5 with the same and now the famas with the tappet plate arghhhhhhhhhhh