Obviously it lost a lot in translation. Chinese suppliers seem to often use Google Translate to generate their English sales literature and spec sheets, with often dismal results, sometimes hilarious. The dimensions listed look like maybe they would be the workholding capacity, not the overall size of the machine. Some sales pogue would not know the difference and just posted them as they came. Price seems about in line with same looking machines on eBay. That's commerce in the 21st century. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

I wonder why one might need to drill pearls and beads in two operations 180 degrees apart?

Yes it might be necessary if the object was over the 35mm diameter but that would be a whopper pearl. I can imagine threading a string through double drilled holes would be fraught with difficulty because of the drill drifting

Ian P

This amused me:

The compact unit …. includes a depth regulator valve…,

Is that for drilling pearls at source? Or do I know too much about diving?

Edited By Nigel Graham 2 on 15/01/2023 19:52:22

Spose the use of cms is in preparation for muddle ingineers deciding raw material prices are too high and convert to dressmaking.

Regards Ian.

I wonder if the pliers have another Cooksons description error. They are made from stainless.

If anyone buys these please report back here

Ian P

I've just looked on the manufacturers website (Beadalon.com) and they do say the head is stainless. My apologies to Cooksons.
BTW the double headed pliers are tempting

Edited By Ian P on 16/01/2023 14:37:01