back from the basement
- swapped the pedals
removed chain-tried to ride it in place(this is quite scary)
to replicate but no tick?!?!

reinstalled the TI pedals
still no tick tick
spindle nut was not all that tight...
oh well- popped the arm off, nicked the virgin new paint-#&%"!!!!!
now maybe, just maybe, there is some sight of burnishing on the taper..
looked very very carefully for any cracks-none (t.g.)

wiped out the grease on the taper, and reinstalled it
torqued it down more then before and marked the nut/spindle with a marker.

everything is repacked except the pedals-have not time yet

will ride in the morning.

cant do more today