Well here we go…company i work for bought a corssfire XR. Its been cool learning and help run but to say this thing is beyond my level of understanding is an understatement. Appreciate your help and enlightenment. Last week my table had a leak so we drained it and found a broke screw in the table bed.
Not that one but one like it. We filled the table up and then 3 days later a leak on the other side. We swapped all those screws out for stainless steel with rubber washers. Fill table back up good to go. 3 days later i have a leak in the same spot and its worse then ever. Drain the table one more time and find what appears to be marks from the table arcing from table slats to table wall. Punched a hole right though.
Galvanic action on the steel screws. The stainless pan is high on the galvanic chart, so the steel screws become sacrificial. Hooking the positive lead to the slats accelerates the corrosion.
Get some Stainless steel version of that hold-down screw with the rubber washer. A good plasma fluid will also help.
I think the pans on the XR are powder coated mild steel? If that is the case, adding the stainless screws to the mild steel pan made the pan the sacrificial material. Expect similar holes everywhere you replaced the mild steel screws with stainless screws.
Thank you guys this was the floating suspicion but no one here able to pin it down exactly. Ground was in fact on the cross slats attached to a magnet. Slats are also in rough shape so in the process of replacing those.
This is not the same as your issue, but since there is a post about a leaking table, I thought I’d submit our problem and solution. Upon initial assembly, there were no leaks. When we added a water table additive to the water to prevent rust, etc., we started getting leaks along the seam where the two halves are connected. After trying to reseal the seam with silicone a couple times, we had enough and had the local manufacturing company fabricate a single stainless steel pan 36" x 52-1/2" with no seam - haven’t lost a drop since. The $350 cost of the pan was worth it. Note: we are a high school and the company helps out my program a lot, so they may have given us a deal on the price. Single Water Table Sketch.pdf (3.7 MB)
