good chrome should only need a shine every once and a while. the pipes on my street bike are 4 years ol and ive never once used anything other then soap an water.
Now that i picked up the rest of my parts from Brandon yesterday wish i had some methanol to fire it up might just start it on purge fuel see if it will even fire.
blue loctite works good with ss im with spurdy i use ss alot at work and as long as your not a moron not using antisieze or trying to tightening the shit out of something there's nothing wrong with it