Glue question

[Ebbtide]

I'm making a box pocket on a case and I want to use magnets to hold the lid shut.
Picture a Marlboro box
The lid will stay shut on it's own but I want the extra insurance.

I salvaged the magnet and flat metal disk from some upscale packaging. They are about 2/3 the size of a dime.

I'd like to glue the disk to the pocket and the magnet to the inside of the lid.

Is contact cement enough?

Is there something mo'bettah?

 

[Hengelo_77]

I'd sandwich the magnet between two layers of leather.
If you do want to glue I'd try epoxy

 

[Horsewright]

If you do the sandwiching do an experiment first before entering up. We'd bought some magnets for some of the wife's purses and by the time we got em sandwiched they didn't have enough sticky to work. Fortunatly we did try a prototype and so hadn't built a whole purse around the deal to find out that it didn't work. 2nd on the epoxy

 

[Ebbtide]

Well, a bunch of time has passed and I decided to use an old standby from my commercial art studio.
Rubber cement tape.
I put three layers of rubber cement on the magnet and disk and they are holding quite well.
Switched out the first magnet for a stronger one and the first was problematic enough to remove that I think the glue will hold.

Pretty sure this is the stuff... not in the studio to double check
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/...36-rolls-per-case?N=8140106+4294871116&rt=rud
I use it a bunch on the job and really like it for paper, board and fabric...