Dana Whitlock
Dana Whitlock holds a degree in materials science and spent six years in quality inspection for a consumer metal goods manufacturer, where her job was to determine why parts failed and whether the cause was design, material or process.
She writes here about the same questions applied to smoking accessories — a category where marketing language around materials is frequently loose and occasionally wrong. Terms like 'medical grade', 'aircraft aluminium' and 'food safe' carry specific meanings in industry and almost none in retail copy, and separating the two is most of what this site does.
Dana buys the items she writes about and has no commercial relationship with any manufacturer, distributor or retailer.
Areas of focus
- Metallurgy and surface finishing
- Anodising and coating durability
- Failure analysis
- Consumer goods quality standards
Contact
Questions and corrections: [email protected].
