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a very thin film of grease on the tapers helps fully seat them without excessive force, despite this being often frowned upon for some reason.
This has been discussed in the grease thread, some very old people wrongly heeded Campag's 1970s instructions to assemble the tapers dry.
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30Nm has always worked for me, never had a square taper arm come loose.
I find that giving self-extracting hex-driven crank bolts much more welly than that runs the risk of deforming the hex head itself.
I’ve also found a very thin film of grease on the tapers helps fully seat them without excessive force, despite this being often frowned upon for some reason.