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" if you install a J.I.S. crank on an ISO spindle, it will wind up about 4.5 mm farther in"
so the opposite is happening to what you think, if anything you'd need shorter bolts but I've never heard of that. I don't even know if you could bottom out the bolt in the spindle by itself.