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Be careful using sand. It is banned in Australia because of the silica. Beads, garnet, nut shells etc are used here.
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Actually, almost impossible to get here now, I just go to any hardware store and buy a bag of masonary sand, basically the same thing....I have also gone to the local river when I was out of sand and needed some on a weekend when the hardware stores were closed and shoveled a #3 tub full of "river/beach sand", I made a box out of 1" by 6" board, about 24 inches square, with no top, then cut a hole in the bottom a little smaller than the top of a standard 5 gallon plastic bucket,cover with screen door screen, set the box on the top of the bucket and poor the sand in it to filter out the small rocks/gravel and debris, shake the box a little and in no time you will have all the sand you need.........FREE
David