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Originally Posted by knc1
Actually, it comes in a large selection of colors.
Large sizes of electrical wire follows the "Ford Rule" for color choice:
"A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black."*
Which is why "electrical tape" comes in colors, to mark the various all-black wires in a group.
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*Despite what you may find written on the web, the reason for this non-choice was at the time (1909) only black paint had the qualities needed for his production methods (low cost, fast drying).
Although he had begun producing the Model T in other colors in 1908, none of them black.
If you can imagine an objective of reducing the price of a car that cost $800. By the end of production (1925) the price was down to $240.**
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** Twice the average annual income of the typical worker of the time.
** Twice the price of one side-view mirror on my current car.
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Interesting because I haven't really seen many black wires, usually when you take off the coating, you find green white red yellow (phone wire), or black, white and green (electric with ground) or just black and white(electric no ground) or red and white (speaker wire).
Oh and we have black, green and brown electric tape here. Maybe other colors too. His tool boxes scare me. I never know what I will find.