How To Install Curtain Rod Extension

I bought one of these cheap mantle rods for my domicile theatre coma curtains:

But it doesn't announced to accept come with whatsoever instructions. I mean information technology appears that I'm supposed to just screw those little hook ends into the wall and then fix the rod upon the hooks. But this strikes me as odd for a couple reasons:

1. The hook itself is pretty long, and the end of the rod (every bit you can run across in the picture) is curved anyway, so it seems the rod will hang style far out from the window when installed. I could perhaps find some shorter hooks.
2. It doesn't look like information technology tin can hold a lot of weight. In fact information technology doesn't even look like it tin hold fifty-fifty the weight of the curtains (which are pretty heavyweight being blackout curtains).

To further complicate things, my apartment uses metal studs, not wooden ones, and they're a major pain to drill through. Moreover, at that place is basically a 4-inch section of wall on either side of the window where the rod pretty much needs to attach to, and I don't know if at that place'due south a stud in that location or if it's but drywall (haven't checked with my studfinder yet).

The window takes up pretty much the unabridged wall, and is about x' across, minus the few inches on either side already mentioned. So in theory I could install the mantle rod onto the side walls, though I don't remember this detail model would work very well (perhaps a tension rod would take been a improve idea--do they come in 120" long versions?).

In brusque, is there any way I tin can install this in such a way that it will support the weight of my curtains? Will I need to buy some different hardware (if so, what kind of things will I need)?

Source: https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/28123/how-to-install-this-cheap-metal-curtain-rod

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