Glove Box Lock Fix

I got a call the other day from a customer to make a key for a trunk of a 94 Buick Lesabre. Normally the way I and any other experienced locksmith technician would make such key in case there are no existing keys in the customer's possession, I will get some of the cuts from the glove box lock. When I got to the job site and started taking apart the vehicle's glove box lock in order to get last 4 cuts, I accidentally broke the plastic ears that held the cylinder lock  inside its housing. At that moment, I did not know what to do since I knew I didn't have any lock of that type in my service vehicle, but after further inspection, I noticed that on the back of the cylinder lock there was a some sort of a cut that was in fact the base for the retainers's ears.

I did quick measuring on the housing part where I noticed the back of the cylinder was blocked and went on to drill a hole in the housing which would be aligned with the small cut that I found on the plug. The next step i did was screwing a sheet metal screw through the lock housing and into the cut on the back of the cylinder. I got the idea from working on a Mortise type lock where it seem to have the same idea where a set screw is holding the cylinder. Quickly I replaced the glove box back and successfully finished the job.

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