They are 16 ga. I have used lots of them on my rehabs. The caps on the tubes do get bent on many of them, but they are easily bent back into shape. Small price to pay.
I didn’t see that reply, but I’m going to see if I can just purchase them for the price I paid on big deal days. They are very nice bars! Thicker than a dime.
So I just chatted with an Amazon rep, took a while to actually get something not AI, and said I’d be willing to pay for them, submitted pics of the box, they reviewed the doorstep pics, and they said that I can just keep them and not charge me for the replacement since they were damaged in transit. That was kinda cool!