Originally Posted by
evwxxx
T-Mar - How can you tell it is a 3 degree taper? The "3K" designation is one of the sizes for JIS spindles shown on Sheldon's BB interchangibilty page, (
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/bbsize.html#square)but he does not reference anything other than 2 degree spindles there?!?!
I have this same question. Although, sometimes you can tell by looking at how "rounded" the angles on the square-taper is. Or, its "stubbiness"