jc penny Penncrest model # 30000
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Delilah, I believe the JA5 is a Brother machine. I recently saw a 3000 at a thrift store I frequent and am pretty sure it had the cams. The last time I was there he still had it. I don't think it had a manual. The thrift store is in the process of moving and is supposed to open August 1st. I will try to make it there Saturday and see if I can get a picture of the cams. I'm pretty sure there was no indication of which machine the cams went to until I saw the machine.
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Delilah, I believe the JA5 is a Brother machine. I recently saw a 3000 at a thrift store I frequent and am pretty sure it had the cams. The last time I was there he still had it. I don't think it had a manual. The thrift store is in the process of moving and is supposed to open August 1st. I will try to make it there Saturday and see if I can get a picture of the cams. I'm pretty sure there was no indication of which machine the cams went to until I saw the machine.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Cari
Edited to add- The owner of that group is a friend of mine, I just emailed him to ask about the 3000.
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Okay, I was just told that Sanshin built this machine. I was also told that most Sanshin multi stitch machines had built in cam stacks, not very many took external cams. Ebay is probably your best bet, but still a crap shoot. Without seeing a pic of a machine with its' cams so you know what to look for, about all you can do is keep buying different ones until you get the right ones. Do a google image search for JC Penney sewing machine and look for pics that show the cams with the machines. Should give you an idea what to look for.
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If you do get the right cams for your machine please post them and the machine in "The Cam Thread". It's a thread I started to try to build a database for cams and machines. It hasn't gotten very far yet.
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Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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I got some black cams off ebay...didn't fit.......anybody wants them let me know, don't know what machine they go with, for sure won't work with mine. ...will post cams if ever I find right ones....but if anyone want the black ones ...you can have they.
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Delilah I just did a google image search and the third pic shows the machine with its box of cams.
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Thank you Cari for checking into the company that made Penney's machines. I find it interesting that there is so much info about companies that made machines which were badged by Wards & Sears but not Penney's. I was going by a machine I have that has JA 5 & JC 16 on it but also has "B.I.C." cast into the base. (Side note - why both?? and what is difference between JA & JC designations). I can't imagine a reason why it would have B.I.C. cast in base and a different company's JA numbers.
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Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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The box itself is about 5"x7"
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P.S. Cari, I will try to post machine with same J-A in Vintage Japanese straight & zig zag thread.
Last edited by OurWorkbench; 08-02-2015 at 02:49 AM. Reason: additional info added
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