10-2, 8-2, and 6-2 Romex cables

[LarryFine]

Couldn't figure out how to upload picture.

Allow me:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Southwi...x-SIMpull-CU-NM-B-W-G-Wire-55188801/300502957

Yikes! Needs to be cropped.

 

[MAC702]

Odd picture. Bare ground? But the artist seems to have drawn a like-colored no-thickness covering over the strands?

 

[jaggedben]

Odd picture. Bare ground? But the artist seems to have drawn a like-colored no-thickness covering over the strands?

That's the paper.

 

[sameguy]

I think the black, white, is from the transition from the knob-n-tube days. If you get into some old work, cloth/rubber coating you will find that the wire could have a white and/or colored tracer.
As far as color codes other than orange,white,gray,strip, I have used all one color (not Romex) and pre identified
Or had to ring them out. We had a guy that would pull max pipe fulls and never mark anything, shop loved him "he can pull a lot of wire quickly ". Controls can be all one color.
We are Pros not handymen. Stop making the code a guide book for the untrained.

 

[MAC702]

That's the paper.

Duh... :ashamed1:

 

[LarryFine]

I'm still waiting for sheath color coding for #8 and #6 NM. The two digits that are hardest to discern, 8 and 6, even worse when dot-printed, and they make the sheath and print the same colors! :rant:

 

[kwired]

I'm still waiting for sheath color coding for #8 and #6 NM. The two digits that are hardest to discern, 8 and 6, even worse when dot-printed, and they make the sheath and print the same colors! :rant:

I can see it may be difficult for some, but I have run so much 6 and 8 that I seldom have had trouble telling them apart just by grabbing the conductor. Pretty much the same for 14 and 12 also.

 

[peter d]

Allow me:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Southwi...x-SIMpull-CU-NM-B-W-G-Wire-55188801/300502957

Yikes! Needs to be cropped.

I stand corrected. Still not sure why it's not listed in Southwire's catalog. :?