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Or all them are wrong, token bb, sugino crank, ritchey BB ;)
But as the ritchey BB is sugino made its either their sort of error or the machining on the tokens is a bit meh.
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or the machining on the tokens is a bit meh.
I've seen some horrible BB axles, Token are not among them
On my sample of one 103mm JIS axle, across-flats gauged at 12.750mm are all at least 50.5mm off centre, which would make the worst case nominal length about 103.9mm (the point at which the across flats dimension would the the JIS nominal 12.65mm if the axle actually extended that far). It's a bit big, but well within the range which could be swamped by variations in assembly.
gbj_tester
Or there's something not quite ISO about your cranks :-)
I've got a spare Token BB and a micrometer within arm's reach, I'll take a measurement.
Notwithstanding whatever results, square taper is a shit system precisely because small tolerances on the axle and crank broaching (and for that matter on the assembly conditions, you could easily have twice as much bolt preload for a given torque just by changing the thread lubrication) yield large errors on the chainline/Q factor.