Found a place near home that has food grade drums for $10 and $15 each. Bought one today for the start of my new smoker. It may take a little while, but I'll hopefully be cooking on it soon.
I thought mine might take a while............NOT.
Once you get going, you won't stop till it's done, and you don't have to do the burn out like i did!!
Just echoing the good luck to you posts! The build is really the easy part, at least on my no-weld drum smokers... I just bolted together my second one last night. Took all of about 3 hours from start to finish and that included a dinner break.