the third pill

[Hactar]

Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds? Halves and
quarters are easy with the kind I have (hinged lid with a centered razor,
base with ridges at +- 45 degrees), but anything that's not 1/2^n is
right out. The construction might involve an amphitheater shape (but
full circle) to center the pill, then razors at 0, 120, 240 degrees
meeting at a point.

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[Les Albert]

On Sun, 5 May 2013 17:49:35 -0400, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

>Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds? Halves and
>quarters are easy with the kind I have (hinged lid with a centered razor,
>base with ridges at +- 45 degrees), but anything that's not 1/2^n is
>right out. The construction might involve an amphitheater shape (but
>full circle) to center the pill, then razors at 0, 120, 240 degrees
>meeting at a point.

Maybe you can use this cutter. Go to Amazon and look for the Duro Med
pill cutter. Some customers who bought the device complained because
it cut a pill into 1/3 and 2/3 segments because the blade is
off-center.

Les

[BillTurlock]

On Sun, 5 May 2013 17:49:35 -0400, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

>Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds? Halves and
>quarters are easy with the kind I have (hinged lid with a centered razor,
>base with ridges at +- 45 degrees), but anything that's not 1/2^n is
>right out. The construction might involve an amphitheater shape (but
>full circle) to center the pill, then razors at 0, 120, 240 degrees
>meeting at a point.

The spreading pressure with all three of those angles being used will
likely shatter the pill. If I invented one, I'd just cut one 120�
section out, and halve the remainder

[Greg Goss]

It's probably easier to go for the solution that Duro Med (according
to Les) accidentally came up with. Choose a linear cut that produces
1/3 of the pill's volume on one side. I'm not sure what kind of
mechanism could make it easy to come up with blade placement for
arbritrary cylindrical pills, then you'd need additional adjustment
for non-cylindrical pills. But you're probably looking at shattering a
pill when you try for cut lines that end at the middle.
--
We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.

[brad]

"Hactar" wrote:

> Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds? Halves and
> quarters are easy with the kind I have (hinged lid with a centered razor,
> base with ridges at +- 45 degrees), but anything that's not 1/2^n is
> right out. The construction might involve an amphitheater shape (but
> full circle) to center the pill, then razors at 0, 120, 240 degrees
> meeting at a point.

I would grind the pill into a powder with a mortar and pestle. Put the
powder on a small sheet of deli paper and divide, by eyeball or a good gram
scale, into thirds. Put powder into fluid and mix thoroughly.

[Hactar]

In article <aupv8j...@mid.individual.net>,

Or saw at it with a Dremel-type cutting disk, but then you lose
thickness_of_blade * area_of_cut. You'd probably have to make several
complete cuts and wind up with two thirds and two sixths, so the blade
loss would be doubled. Or just say "screw it, 1/2 is close enough to
1/3".

[Wally Sevits]

On Mon, 6 May 2013 11:33:48 -0400, ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar)
wrote:

Cut into two halves.

Cut about a third off of each half, should be easier to estimate at
that point.

Consume the two small pieces right then, save the other 1/3-size
pieces for later.
--
Wally Sevits

[D.F. Manno]

In article <km8hji$gi5$1...@dont-email.me>, "brad" <no...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Meanwhile, I'll ask the doctor for a new prescription for smaller pills.

--
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GOP delenda est!

[emcre...@gmail.com]

DF -- The main reason people cut pills is to save money. Many, especially those still under patent are not that much cheaper in the smaller sizes. When you're looking at heart meds (which I am, literally) that costs $1200 for 30mgx30 or $1100 for 15mg, which is what you need. Say you split the biggons into 60 halvies, you have $20 pills. If you take the little ones, it's cost you $37. If you're taking 2 a day, double that or $74/day and $2220 a month. For the self-sliced-15's, it's "only" $1200 a month.

That pill cutter saved you $1000 in a month.

Check GoodRx.com to compare prices. Not all drug makers do this price jacking on the smaller doseages. It also does not apply as often to generic mfg's.

[Bob]

On Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 5:49:35 PM UTC-4, Hactar wrote:

> Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds?

Dissolve it in enough liquor and you won't care.

[bill van]

What kind of a hateful reply is that, why would you address it
to a disabled guy, and why would you reply to so specific a
question nearly six years later?

bill

[Bob]

Hateful? What disabled guy? I'm just replying in a thread that got a recent bump.

[Peter Boulding]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 13:53:06 -0800 (PST), Bob <rob...@bestweb.net> wrote in
<cd450987-3299-4b97...@googlegroups.com>:

The disabled guy is "Hactar", to whose 5 year-old thread starter message you
replied.

At least you didn't reply--unlike the sender of the "recent bump" message
(as you put it)--to someone who died a year ago.

BTW the said "recent bump" message doesn't appear to have propagated
correctly; at the time of writing only one of the three news servers to
which I currently have access has received it; Bill probably hasn't seen it.
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[Les Albert]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 13:53:06 -0800 (PST), Bob <rob...@bestweb.net>

wrote:

Consider your chain jerked! Hactar was wheelchair bound, and I
answered his question back in 2013. Hactar was a frequent poster, and
I wonder what ever happened to cause his disappearance.

Les

[Lesmond]

I watched his wedding, live.

--
If there's a nuclear winter, at least it'll snow.

[Bob]

On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 6:06:36 PM UTC-5, Peter Boulding wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 13:53:06 -0800 (PST), Bob <rob...@bestweb.net> wrote in
> <cd450987-3299-4b97...@googlegroups.com>:
>
> >On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 3:08:36 AM UTC-5, bill van wrote:
> >> On 2019-02-03 04:53:44 +0000, Bob said:
> >>
> >> > On Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 5:49:35 PM UTC-4, Hactar wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Is there any device that will cut a round pill into thirds?
> >> >
> >> > Dissolve it in enough liquor and you won't care.
> >>
> >> What kind of a hateful reply is that, why would you address it
> >> to a disabled guy, and why would you reply to so specific a
> >> question nearly six years later?
> >
> >Hateful? What disabled guy? I'm just replying in a thread that got a recent bump.
>
> The disabled guy is "Hactar", to whose 5 year-old thread starter message you
> replied.
>
> At least you didn't reply--unlike the sender of the "recent bump" message
> (as you put it)--to someone who died a year ago.

Wow, DF Manno died? ISTR that name from here. Then again, someone might find a post I made previously saying, "Wow, DF Manno died?", if Deja Google still worked.

Mostly I don't remember people, or things about them. I remember Blinky the Shark died suddenly, but I have to keep reminding myself of the distinction between him & Opus the Penguin, their names are so similar. ISTR 1 or more other posters has/have died, & I remember some names, but I don't remember which names went w the act of dying. There was even a big poster from England, or Iceland, who sent me $100, & died a yr. later; or maybe it was someone else who sent me $ and/or died. We discuss so many things here! It's like I'm playing those card games where you make a sentence out of swappable passages. It doesn't help when people change names. Like did we ever determine whether Dutch Courage died?

Although my replies may be formally "to" someone, they're really just "to" the subject, & "for" whoever reads it any time in the future.

So I'm not hateful, just forgetful. Dissolve my posts in enough liquor, & you won't care.

Bob in Andover

[Boron Elgar]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:44:54 -0800 (PST), Bob <rob...@bestweb.net>
wrote:

Dom did pass away, but he was not Hactar.

[Kevin]

Made me LOL..especially because mixing pills and liquor...haha