Fastener storage and organizer tray

A method for storing, organizing, transporting and accessing a supply of headed fasteners and bolts of different bolt shank diameters, thread configuration and length, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings of different shapes and sizes, comprising the steps of:

• providing a generally rectangular tray having a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, and a plurality of individual compartments of different lengths and widths defined by upstanding longitudinal and transverse divider walls, at least one of said compartments having a generally rectangular raised platform with a top surface disposed horizontally in a plane a distance below top ends of said peripheral side walls and said divider walls, and a generally rectangular recessed trough at each of two opposed ends of said raised platform;
• storing a number of headed fasteners on said raised platform top surface in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation with shank portions of said headed fasteners supported on said platform top surface, with a portion of the heads of alternate headed fasteners received in one said trough at one of said opposed ends of said raised platform and the end of said shank portions extending over said trough at the opposed end of said raised platform;
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• removing respective headed fasteners by pressing down on the end of the shank portion of a respective headed fastener to pivot it downward and raise the head of the respective headed fastener above one of said divider walls, and grasping the head of the respective headed fastener to remove it from a respective one of said compartments, or vice versa.