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Collectors' PagesMy name is Steve Coffman, I was born on May 13, 1980. I started collecting insulators in 1993, when I obtained a brown U-579 NN. Since then, I have obtained about 200 insulators.
My specialties include house wiring insulators, wireholders, fuse cutouts, porcelain, spools, electric fence insulators, modern insulators, suspensions, pins and other hardware, and assorted what not.
I think my favorite insulators are my CD 734, my CD 286, my yellow U-503, and my electric fence and wiring insulators. In May of this year, I started writing a column in Rainbow Riders. Entitled The Modern Scene, it of course is about modern insulators. I approached Patti Norton with my idea, because I was obtaining a lot of information on new insulators, and wanted to make this information available. Among other things, I have written the first article on Florida Wire and Cable Co., and reported on Industrial Ceramics closing the old Westinghouse factory in Derry PA.
I have also done considerable research on CD 286, which resulted in the first article on that insulator. Currently, I am working on histories of every glass CD style known, and am introducing two new magazines in January. These magazines, The Electric Fencer, and Old Mud cover electric fence insulators and porcelain insulators. For more information, please contact me at: Steve Coffman, 4446 N. Hett LN, Oak Harbor, WA 98277.
My other hobbies include porcelain lightbulb sockets (lampholders), old light bulbs, and lampholder adapters, antique electrical equipment, and radio strains. I have discovered that electricians when working on old buildings can be a great source of old electrical porcelain, and other old electrical equipment, which would otherwise be thrown away. Don Gambill of Lighthouse Electric has been a wonderful source of such items, and I would like to thank him here.
It is my hope that you enjoyed my personal page, I will be re-working it in the future, and include a picture. Good collecting and may God bless.
Written by Steve Coffman,
Last updated Thursday, October 3, 1996