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What hasn't been said yet, you will make a plate to secure the die to the base of the arbor press. Once you have this in hand, place it on the press, put the punch in the upper portion, and secure it. Now, lower it into the die, shifting the die until it's perfectly centered. Secure the die in place, remove the punch and fabricate some sort of stripper to pull the punch out of the newly punched holes. While doing all this, place two dowel pins in the base plate which will guide the OD of the piece to be punched. Punch a hole, rotate the piece, punch a hole. There's probably more to be done, to locate where the next hole goes, but I can't do that from here.