I can speak to this from direct experience.
First, here is how the HH.357 atomizer came to be for those who are unfamiliar with the history.
Before the HH.357 atomizer existed, it was a tweak that Hanna came up with by applying the physics phenomenon known as the Venturi Effect to atomizer airflow. At that time, he called his method and result
The Improved Seal and Vacuum Mod. Hanna was taking various manufacturers' 306 coils and putting them in a 510 sleeve and creating a vacuum seal that drastically altered the way airflow was directed towards the atomizer coil. His methods were published on an e-cigarette blog in December of 2010 so that vapers could try to make them on their own. I noticed the post about 5 months after it was published.
I never tried to make one myself, but I did email Hanna and asked him if he would make two atomizers for me. He agreed, and I sent him the parts to make the atomizer. I sent him two Cisco 306 atomizers and two generic 510 atomizer shells. Before this point, Hanna had never seen or heard of Cisco atomizers. I paid for his labor with cartomizers and eliquid. I received the completed atomizers and took some pictures of them. This is a picture of the first ever atomizer that Hanna made using a Cisco 306 coil.
Hanna was immediately struck by the quality of the Cisco 306 coil. I was struck by the incredible performance of the completed product. I named the product the HH.357 because it was made by taking a 306 coil and putting it into a 510 sleeve...I noticed that when you took
510 (the sleeve) and added 6 (taken from thethe 3
06 coil) you got 57 for the tens and ones place, while keeping the 3 from 306 in the hundreds lace, which made 357. I decided that this would be a cool number to use to name the atomizer since I thought it hit much like a .357 ammunition round kicked when discharged from a pistol. I included the prefix HH because those are Hanna's initials.
I immediately sent Hanna more parts to make me 6 more atomizers. I also invited Hanna onto my radio show
Click, Bang! to talk about his incredible product. It was kind of funny because I never bothered to talk to Hanna before the show...and I thought he was a girl. Here is a link to that broadcast:
Click Bang - The HH .357 Atomizer 06/15 by kevbow | Blog Talk Radio
I also posted some videos of the atomizer on twitter and youtube, here is an example of one of the twitter videos
http://www.yfrog.com/15o4jz as well as the Youtube video
The HH .357 atomizer - YouTube
At this point, Avidvaper was not involved in distributing the HH.357 atomizer. Hanna began making them for people who heard about the atomizer on my radio show. People would contact Hanna so that he could make atomizers for them. Vapers would send Hanna the products necessary to make a HH.357 (a 306 coil and a 510 sleeve) and Hanna would mail them back the completed product.
Shortly after the show was broadcast, I went to a vape meetup in NYC to let other vapers try the HH.357 atomizers that Hanna made for me. Cisco was at that meetup and I let him try it. He too was impressed with the performance and I introduced Cisco to Hanna. From there, they formed a business relationship whereby Hanna would assemble quantities of the HH.357 and mail them to Cisco where they would be sold through Avidvaper. Since then, Cisco has contributed many ideas to the design and assembly of the HH.357 that has, in my opinion, greatly improved the performance of the atomizer from Hanna's original design. Hanna and Cisco have also collaborated to introduce other products to the HH.357 line of atomizers including different resistances, long and short barrel versions, as well as a 901. My personal favorite is the 901
During these early days of the HH.357, and several times since, I visited Hanna at his residence. I was able to see, first hand, his work room, his tools, and the parts that he used to make a HH.357 atomizer. I was able to watch him, in person, take those parts and put together a HH.357 Perhaps one of the most impressive things I got to see were the tools that his wife Kat made by hand for Hanna to assemble, test, and finish the atomizers.
I did not take pictures of the workspace nor did I shoot video of assembly because that is what I consider to be private and propriterary information. I did take a some pictures of things that I found interesting. I took this picture of a bucket of atomizer coils because I thought it looked cool.
I also took a couple of other pictures while at Hanna's place, including one of Sean - he helped Hanna with quality control. He is a user on ECF under the username Abubika.
During one of my visits, Hanna was unable to finish a batch in time to mail them to Avidvaper for the date that was promised to the community without incurring high shipping costs. At that time, entire batches HH.357's would sell out in literally a matter of seconds. Since I was already at his place, I hand carried the shipment back to Avidvaper in NY - here is a picture of that batch that I took at my apartment before driving the batch to Avidvaper that Sunday. Once I gave the batch to Cisco I promptly bought two.
Hanna has become a close friend of mine over the past nine months. I can give countless other examples of my familiarity with the process of the creation of the HH.357 as well as Hanna's integrity as a human being....
which is ultimately and unfortunately what is being called into question here.
I hope that the few examples I have chosen that demonstrate my personal experience with Hanna and the creation of the HH.357 atomizer should quell the doubts that anyone has about how the atomizer is produced. If one believes that the HH.357 is assembled in China, then one must necessarily believe that I am lying about everything that I have written just now, and everything that I have been talking about with regards to the HH.357 for the past several months on
Click, Bang!
I hope that is not the case, as it would be a severe error in judgement.