Display Encoder position with button to zero.

I could be "way" off as to why the machine has stick/slip. I had the table off about 8 years ago and I don't remember any gibs. Just a V way and a flat way. There is recirculating oil holes every so often to keep the ways floating like an air-hockey table. We checked to make sure there was oil coming from each hole before putting the table back on. We had the ways flaked (Top and Bottom if I remember correctly) by a local machine rebuilder. I don't believe the original manufacturer (Heald) flaked the ways. That is what leads me to believe the flaking was a mistake.

All and all, the machine grinds nice and does what we want it to do. I am just trying to make it a little easier on the operators when it comes to setting the zero up against a shoulder.

Sorry, I miss understood what "Flaked" was. (Still no idea really.) I was thinking profile linear bearing or tank roller bearing with spalling type failure. I should have known better that a machine heavy enough to use hydraulic controls would almost certainly not have roller ways. (I hang around routers too much. I'll go back and stand in my corner a while, dons dunce hat.)