Vermont Sales

02/06/2026

TEAM TORK CRAFT TAMES TEMPE
Motocross girls & boys on top in Bloemfontein

Team Tork Craft once again came home clutching the silverware following the weekend’s fourth round South African National Motocross races at the Tempe track in Bloemfontein. It was once again a case of ladies first, however. Team Tork Craft Husqvarna’s Mackenzie Bam made a clean sweep to extend her advantage in the 2026 Ladies Motocross chase.

Not to be outdone, Sigmafix Tork Craft Yamaha hero Slade Smith consolidated his senior motocross challenge with second for the day in both 450cc open class MX1 and quarter-litre MX2.

Sigmafix Tork Craft Yamaha teammate, National Cross Country hero Maddy Malan made Slade work for it in the big bore class. They shared out the MX1 seconds and thirds only for Smith to stand on the second step of the podium alongside Malan on a countback to Slade taking his second place first.

Fourth in heat 1 Slade then bounced back to grab second in the second MX2 moto aboard his Sigmafix Tork Craft Yamaha YZF 250. Team Tork Craft Husqvarna lad Luke Grundy was twice third to end up third for the day by just a single point in another podium double for Team Tork Craft.

Fourth in the 85cc action, Rayden Woolls was best of the Team Tork Craft Junior riders on his Team Tork Craft Husqvarna. Tork Craft RTR KTM trio Hanru du Plessis ended 11th, Lourens Erasmus 12th and ⁠Adam Meyer 15th in the 85s. And Team Tork Craft Husqvarna lad Kabelo Ledwaba ended tenth in High School 125s where Tork Craft Blu Cru Yamaha trio Deruk van Aswegan was 13th, Branden van Wyk 15th and Cameron Stuckie 17th.

“That was another great day for Team Tork Craft,” team coordinator Tony Riddell concludes. “Mackenzie is making South African Ladies Motocross her own, while Slade, Maddy and Luke were all on the open class podiums and the rest of the team continues to learn and grow by the moto. Well done one and all!”

Title sponsor to the factory Sigmafix Tork Craft Yamaha and Husqvarna Junior Teams, Tork Craft is and also partner to the South African Cross Country Championship, Team Tork Craft furthermore sponsors, supports, nurtures, and trains several more riders through Tony Riddell’s Ride Train Race motocross academy.

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29/05/2026

WHO NEEDS A TORQUE WRENCH WITH TORK CRAFT?
Tork Craft’s digital adaptor makes any wrench a torque wrench

Torque wrenches are an essential part of any sophisticated assembly, right? But while they’re an essential part of any professional toolkit, your torque wrench can also be cumbersome, heavy, and bulky. And it takes up a lot of valuable space in that toolbox, too. Until Tork reinvented the game, that is…

Tork Craft’s digital torque adaptor has just revolutionised the torque wrench as we know it. A nifty, light, small and hugely capable little tool, the digital torque adaptor will now make any wrench in your toolbox into a torque wrench. Simply click it into place between your ratchet, T, or power bar, or whatever is convenient, and the socket or extension bar, set the torque and tighten the nut or bolt until the beep.

See, the revolutionary Tork Craft digital torque adaptor conveniently converts your standard tool into a torque wrench in seconds. Boasting the same features as Tork Craft’s regular mini digital torque wrenches, the digital adaptor switches between Newton-metre, kilogram-foot per centimetre, foot-pound and inch-pound scales. The device also stores the torque data from its previous ten applications.

Featuring a large backlit screen, a flashing LED and beeping alarm with a 5 minute automatic shutdown function, it has three peak, real time and preset operating modes too. Tork Craft’s mini digital torque adaptor furthermore comes with half to three-eighths and half to quarter-inch M socket adaptors to make it work with any wrench in your set, and a PH0 screwdriver too.

Ideal for use in anything from the automotive workshop to manufacturing and DIY, Tork Craft’s smart digital torque adaptor is accurate to 2% clockwise and 2.5% counterclockwise. It comes packed in a smart blow-moulded case complete with two AAA batteries and is available from leading tool and hardware outlets across Southern Africa. Learn more and order yours online at www.torkcraft.com now.

Tork Craft is a Vermont Sales brand. Established 40 years ago in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 30 tried, tested, and guaranteed leading international brands. Available through more than 3,000 outlets across Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at www.vermontsales.co.za

Tork Craft. Tools for every job

26/05/2026

TORK CRAFT MICROFIBRE ROLL – READY FOR IT ALL
Tork Craft’s lappie roll: perfect for the shop, home, and the rest

An indispensable facet of any workshop, tool shed or home, your lappie is part of every task. Whether it’s preparing, cleaning up, or buffing the job up after, your cleaning cloths are simply part of everyday life. Which is why Tork Craft takes its microfibre workshop cloths as seriously as it does its most comprehensive tool kit or most sophisticated power tool.

So like the rest of its incredibly diverse range of everything from tools to power machines, accessories and more, the country’s favourite tool brand also offers a proper rag solution. Designed for fast, efficient, and hygienic cleaning, Tork Craft’s high quality microfibre workshop cloths are designed to deliver ultimate cleaning, whatever the job.

Available as single blue 400 by 400 millimetre units, Tork Craft multipurpose microfibre workshop cloths are affordable non-abrasive, reusable, lint-free, eco-friendly. Even more of a bargain, Tork Craft’s convenient grey roll of twenty 300 by 300 mm tear-off sheets is ready to use for every job, in the shop, around the home or on your car or bike.

Made from ultra-fine microfibre cloth, Tork Craft’s 180 GSM fabric microfibre workshop cloths are available from leading tool and hardware outlets across Southern Africa. Or learn more about them and the rest of Tork Craft’s incredible tool and accessory range and order yours online at www.torkcraft.com now.

Tork Craft is a Vermont Sales brand. Established 40 years ago in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 30 tried, tested, and guaranteed leading international brands. Available through well over 3,000 outlets across Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at www.vermontsales.co.za

Tork Craft. Tools for every job

24/05/2026

DAMIEN DOMINATES ZWARTKOPS
Purificati is making ZX10 Masters his own in 2026

Damien Purificati continued to dominate the SunBet ZX10 Masters motorcycles supported by Tork Craft tools with another two dominant race victories at Zwartkops’ third round National Extreme Festival on Saturday.

Championship leader, class B man Damien Purificati put his Amalgam Welding ZX10 on pole position by four hundreths of a second from top class A rider, Keith Agliotti’s TNB Ridgeway machine. Hein McMahon’s K9 Law Enforcement XPO bike sat alongside them on the front row in third, ahead of Class C leader James Barson’s Proproof bike next to Trevor Westman and AD van Dalen on row 2.

Dirk Stols, Henk Kruger, and Reginald Seale filled row 3 ahead of Pieter Delport, Byron Rothquel, and Robert Ferreira, Johan Le Roux, Renatus van Niekerk and Tyron Piper. Ian Harwood, Stephen Galgoczy, Abrie Marais, Joao Cruz, Robert Ferreira, Nico Zietsman, Brad Zeeman, and Alfie Swanepoel rounded off the 21-bike grid.

Damion Purificati once again made short work of the opening heat as he sped off to another victory, four seconds clear of Hein McMahon. James Barson and Trevor Westman followed, while Henk Kruger also put one over Keith Agliotti for fifth ahead of
AD van Dalen, Pieter Delport, Reginald Seale, Renatus van Niekerk and Byron Rothquel in tenth.

Like Agliotti, Dirk Stols also slipped back, but he held Johan le Roux off with Robert Ferreira, Abrie Marais, Stephen Galgoczy, Tyron Piper, Ian Harwood, Nico Zietsman, Alfie Swanepoel and Bradley Zeeman in hot pursuit.

Race 2 was a carbon copy up front as Purificati went on to make it five wins in six starts over Hein McMahon, James Barson and Trevor Westman. There was a shake-up behind them however as Pieter and AD moved up to fifth and sixth ahead of Johan le Roux, Reginald Seale, Byron Rothquel and Renatus van Niekerk in tenth.

Dirk Stols followed from Robert Ferreira, Henk Kruger and Abrie Marais, Stephen Galgoczy, Tyron Piper, Nico Zietsman and Ian Harwood after Keith Agliotti and Alfie Swanepoel stopped and Bradley Zeeman did not start. Class B winner Purificati took the day from top class A man McMahon, Westman, Delport and van Dalen, while James Barson won class C.

SunBet ZX10 Masters supported by Tork Craft tools heads for the Eastern Cape next for the fourth round Extreme Festival at Aldo Scribante in Gqeberha on Saturday 27 June.

Your SunBet ZX10 Masters race report is brought to you by Tork Craft tools.

22/05/2026

JORGENSEN TAKES OFF THE EDGE
Corner Easing Planes reliably ease sharp edges

PONY Jorgensen’s growing range of woodworking hand tools is crafted to deliver a broad range of specialised carpentry solutions. Jorgensen Corner Easing Planes are a case in point. Ergonomically designed to deliver precise depth control, these planes make quick work of edge relief to deliver great corner finishing results.

Jorgensen Corner Easing Planes straddle the corner of your timber to quickly, effectively and consistently relieve sharp edges from workpieces while creating uniform chamfers or rounded corners. The planes are precisely hewn from durable high‑grade aluminium with a knurled thumbwheel to easy and precise adjustment their hardened, sharp and durable interchangeable steel blades.

Each plane’s handle opens to reveal a convenient built-in blade storage compartment. Jorgensen Corner Easing Planes are available in three models. The base 7040 corner easing plane has a single 45‑degree O1 steel chamfer blade. Model 70748 adds three 1/8”. 3⁄16” and 1⁄4” radius blades and Model 70743 include a replacement pack for each of those blades.

Jorgensen Corner Easing Planes are ideal to ease sharp edges off anything from tabletops to trim and cabinetry, to edge-breaking and creating decorative chamfers before painting or staining in a professional splinter-free finish. Available from tool and hardware stores across Southern Africa, also visit www.vermontsales.co.za/brand-pony to learn more and order yours now.

PONY Jorgensen is a Vermont Sales brand. Established in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 30 leading, tried, tested, and guaranteed brands. Available through well over 3,000 outlets throughout Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at www.vermontsales.co.za

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19/05/2026

THE MPS DOUBLE CLEAN JIGSAW REVOLUTION
Germany’s finest, MPS Sägen reinvents the jigsaw blade

World saw blade leaders, MPS Sägen has in essence reinvented the jigsaw blade with its revolutionary new German-engineered Double Clean 3161 and 3162 blades. Developed by MPS to deliver optimal results, these innovative patented world first MPS blades set new standards in splinter-free jigsaw cutting.

MPS Double Clean jigsaw blades are the ideal carpentry solution in preparing countertops and similar coated materials like Formica or melamine. MPS Double Clean blades deliver clean, damage and splinter-free 180-degree cuts from both the top and bottom. Most significantly, however, they do so without the need to mask the surface to be cut.

The extra-long 132 mm MPS Double Clean 3161 blade has a 110 mm cutting length to tackle even the most demanding applications. The shorter but more manoeuvrable 100 mm long, 75 mm cutting length 3162 blade is best used on thinner materials and general panel sizes to achieve tighter cutting curves.

Made from high-alloy chrome-vanadium steel with teeth radially arranged to the centre of the blade for the perfect cut, MPS Double Clean blades deliver outstanding jig sawing performance, no matter what the job. MPS saw blades are available at leading tool and hardware outlets across Southern Africa. Or learn more about and order the Double Clean and the rest of the MPS range at www.vermontsales.co.za/brand-mps now.

MPS Sägen GmbH is a Vermont Sales brand. Established in 1985, Vermont Sales offers a huge range of tool solutions from more than 30 leading, tried, tested, and guaranteed brands. Available through well over 3,000 outlets throughout Southern Africa, and backed by the Vermont Sales Force, the company also offers comprehensive training across all its brands. Learn more at www.vermontsales.co.za

MPS Sägen GmbH. Premium Saw Blades

18/05/2026

Splinter free cuts in wood with MPS