Another update, I cleaned up the anti seize, and placed the Belleville washers in the correct way up. I set the gap to 0.30mm, and bolted on the blade plate. Even though I'm using the 0.30mm feeler, the 0.25mm feeler barely slides in, so there's not really much difference.
The jamming issue has been resolved, I have blue spark when testing the plug. Now it won't fire...
I'm going to strip the carb to make sure nothing moved while I was taking it on and off for the past few days.
I don't really know what else to do, other than check compression, but I'm pretty sure it's a tight engine.