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@JCaprani
Not necessarily, it may be wrong BB, wrong chainset or a combination of both. What chainset are you using? Fitting too long a bb to give clearance for the chainset will ruin the chainline. Widely spaced chainstays can rub off 144bcd chainsets, particularly where there is a lot of backsweep on the spider arms, my flatmate had just this problem with a set of Campag Super Records on a new frame last week. He switched to a 135 bcd chainset with the same bb and it worked fine.
A 135 or 110 bcd chainset might do perfectly well on the same bike and allow the best size bb to be fitted. Sugino XDs are 110BCD and have pretty straight spider arms, and will give a lot of chainstay clearance. If it's only a matter of a few mills then you might get away with 135mm bcd. There's probably 100 other good cranks for the job out there, loads of BMX type stuff will prob work too if you are ok with that.