I already have a sifter (a stainless steel pasta strainer Walmart $7). The cheapy hood came with the cheapy pressurized sand blaster. I have a 7.5 hp two stage compressor on an 80 gallon tank that worked fine when I tested the blaster a month or so ago. I never planned on using play sand because somebody on here said that it's beach sand and it will have salt in it that makes sense to me. the cheapest I was going to go was quartz but I didn't know if it was the same as silica sand but quartz was all that Lowes had I will take a look at home depot and see if they have silica sand.