Inside Camacho bought a small flashlight, a coil of insulated wire, and some black electrician's tape.

One bow had been mended with black electrician's tape.

A 40-year-old black electrician, concerned about the mirror in his children's eyes, asked, "What if one of my kids saw me not give to a man who doesn't have legs?"

To show that the white wires attached to both switches carry current from the power source, paint their ends black or wrap them with black electrician's tape.

With each weapon were twelve magazines, apparently all loaded, and taped together end-to-end with black electrician's tape.

Inside the store, Bolan found an egg timer, a roll of black electrician's tape, a two-lifer bottle of lamp oil and a roll of thin nylon cord.

A wooden rocking chair with a splintered seat sat next to a couch, patched like George's where the springs had come through, this one with black electrician's tape.

The brown paper wrapping had been neatly sealed with black electrician's tape of the kind that can be bought in the hardware section of a supermarket.

The handle and guard had been removed, and the metal tang was wrapped in black electrician's tape.

Large photo murals are fixed to the walls and the floor with black electrician's tape, a humble counterpart to the high life depicted in the murals.