Mystery

falcon1970
falcon1970 Posts: 758
edited December 2021 in Camping & Travel
In the middle of a camping trip I found this item laying on the floor under the dinette inn my 2019 TAB 400.  Does anyone have an idea about what it is and where it should go?  I have searched and cannot see any place that it might have fallen from.  Everything seems to still work but I am stumped as to where this goes.


   

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  • rfuss928
    rfuss928 Posts: 1,190
    It looks a little like the grommet that the holds the stove grate in position.  

  • falcon1970
    falcon1970 Posts: 758
    @rfuss928
    Thanks for the suggestion but that isn't it.  I guess it will go in with my collection of other small bits and pieces that have detached themselves.  Maybe it will become obvious at some point in the future.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 831
    It will become obvious where it goes as soon as you lose this mystery part. 
  • falcon1970
    falcon1970 Posts: 758
    That is why I never throw anything away.  sooner or later I will find out where it goes.  The real trouble is that I can't ever find things I have saved once I find I need them.
  • Bayliss
    Bayliss Posts: 1,532
    @falcon1970, just a guess, but it looks like it may be some sort of wall anchor, because it appears that the ribbed areas are designed to expand and/or grab a wall opening.  OR, possibly part of a nylon/plastic rivet, similar to those depicted below, possibly for a window blind or a plastic frame that mounts to a wall:

         

    2019 T@B 320 S Boondock Lite ~ 2025 Toyota Tundra CrewMax 4x4
    Greg & Marlene (Tucson, AZ)

  • Binghi
    Binghi Posts: 411
    Might be one of the wall anchors that holds the lower dinette rail in place.

    2021 400 BD / 2023 Ford F150 / Austin, TX

  • DanManz
    DanManz Posts: 81
    I wondered if it was a wall anchor that holds one of the buttons in place securing the fabric panels.  My additional guess is that it isn't something that fell off your 400.  Rather, it was a piece that got swept under an Alde vent during construction and never got vacuumed out.
    Dan and Liz    2019 TAB 400 BDL    2010 Toyota Tacoma V6 4WD TRD Sport
  • falcon1970
    falcon1970 Posts: 758
    It doesn't have the pin in the head--or a hole in the head where the pin would have been--so I don't think it is an anchor of some sort.  Looks more like a decorative cover for something.  Although a piece that fits somewhere on the cool cat system that fell out or was dropped and didn't get swept out is a possibility.  I will have to open up the hatch over the cool cat and see if there are similar covers in there somewhere.
  • dlb
    dlb Posts: 176
    So with trailers and boats, mystery parts are part of the buying and ownership process. It takes years of effort to find them a home and then aha! That is where it goes.  Life saving moments!
    2021 Tab 400 Boondock
    2020 Audi SQ5
  • RCB
    RCB Posts: 249
    edited December 2021
    I found one too, and under the table of my 2019 -400. My first thought was it was part of the spring mechanism for the table support, but I don’t see how it would fit around the spring and stay in place. Like the watchmaker who had parts left over, but the watch worked anyway; I threw it in the junk drawer.
    400 - 2019
    St Catharines, ON
  • falcon1970
    falcon1970 Posts: 758
    @RCB
    That is where I thought it went, but I don't see any place to put it.  Someday we will discover it's use.  Maybe!

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