Refurbish exhaust

[Neal]

I have a 1981 GS1100E project bike with only 8700 miles on the clock. I would like to keep it as stock. The exhaust is a little scrapped up and has some dents. I'm in the Chicago area. I'm guessing the dents need to be pulled out and then recromed. Any idea as to how to search for a place that could do this for me?

[LAB3]

It's not going to easy but you're better off finding a solid, dent free set of pipes and having those re-chromed. The second issue is finding someone willing to do it, the grunge inside of used pipes mucks up the plating tank. Thirdly pulling dents out of a naked piece of tubing is going to require filler, in this case several layers of copper plating that can be ground down to shape. Even a grand prize find like a set of NOS pipes would probably be cheaper.