We show that for "most" compact nonmetrizable spaces, the unit ball of the Banach space C(K) contains an uncountable 2-equilateral set. We also give examples of compact nonmetrizable spaces K such that the minimum cardinality of a maximal equilateral set in C(K) is countable.

We study extension operators between spaces of continuous functions on the spaces $\sigma ₙ\left(2^X\right)$ of subsets of X of cardinality at most n. As an application, we show that if $B_H$ is the unit ball of a nonseparable Hilbert space H equipped with the weak topology, then, for any 0 < λ < μ, there is no extension operator $T:C\left(\lambda B_H\right)\to C\left(\mu B_H\right)$.