What type of cosmeisis for Bock knee?

[James Stewart]

Thanks Morris,

That helps explain a lot - I'll pass this along.

JS

At 01:04 AM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi
>Foam covers require a tremendous amount of time to carve and shape.  First
>you must carve out the inside hole to fit the socket and knee attachment.
>Then the interior should be coated with two coats of contact cement and when
>totally dry de-tacked with talcum powder.  This prolongs the life of the foam
>internally.  Then you must shape the exterior of the cover.  This is done
>freehand, requiring an experienced hand to achieve an aesthetically pleasing
>cover.  It is very tedious and messy.  If you have a suction socket you have
>to then provide a cosmetic way of accessing the valve.  The foam cover blank
>and stocking covers from Bock are  expensive.  Because of this, $600 is not
>unreasonable.  The DAW system cover requires much less labor but it is fairly
>ugly and hard to get to meet measurements.  Cost wise it should be less
>expensive.
>
>James Stewart wrote:
>
> > At 11:49 PM 7/26/01 -0400, Morris wrote:
> > >Mr. Wallick
> > >I am a prosthetist in Florida and am familiar with the foam covers.
> >
> > Morris, do you mind my stepping in and asking about general cost of these
> > covers?  A buddy of mine here was quoted some $600. CDN.  I thought this
> > was incredibly high.  Is this possible?
> >
> > JS