You may be getting some things confused with the 562 MK2 which had changes more detrimental to it's power output than the 550 MK2.
A lot was changed on the cylinder and case between the original 550XP and the MK2. I doubt the MK2 cylinder will bolt to a MK1 case well as they changed the...
Pretty sure his 116cc saw blew up so he pivoted and made the 90.28cc version.
No, I didn't make any posts about it. I kept it pretty secret as I had no idea how it was going to pan out.
You might just need to move the stone arbor on the motor shaft. The 450 lacks a vertical adjustment in the arm you so have to move the stone arbor when making massive changes to angles.
You can also use some bloc-it heat paste but the damage is far enough away from anything else that I wouldn't bother.
I probably weld 10 saws like this a year, most caused by using extremely large WC style AM dogs in Midwest hardwood.
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