Makes more sense to me now. Tower Hobby sells a flexible CA glue (superglue) that works really well to bond rubber to metal like you're talking about. Sounds like you need something with good sheer strength too and this has it. You can probably get it at your LHS, but, here's a link in case you can't:>

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXCX68&P=7