Lori - Try posting this question at the Sewing Forum (link below). It is a much more active forum, and frequently has questions and answers(!) about the mechanics of sewing machines, instruction books, etc.

Here is a link that might be useful: THS Sewing Forum

I think sewusa has many of the old morse manuals online.

there's no one way to do it cause the machines changed so much from one model to another...