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Jim, my sand blaster is exactly the same as yours.
Every now and then the local quarry gets an excess of fines which they sell off as fill for $3 a cubic metre, so I go get myself a trailer load, transfer some of it to fish bins which I then store in my shed. (The rest gets dumped, usually as fill.)
Whenever I think of it I tip the sand from one fish bin into another, so that over a period of months it dries completely.
Then when it's totally dry I too use a cheap sieve to remove the larger pieces.

And when I need to blast something I've got any amount of dry clean sand to do it.

(I'm most probably preaching to the converted, but don't use river sand for blasting. River sand is rounded whereas quarry sand is crushed and is therefore multifaceted which is far more abrasive, whereas the rounded river sand can heat and distort light steel panels.)