Ron Lowe wrote:

Any advice on what you can and can't do with chromed pipe?

sand/wire-wool to remove the plating anywhere you're soldering it

if bending it, you'll probably be unlucky and the plating will flake off

Don't spoil the job with those clip-on "plastic chrome" pipe collars,
gulp at the price then buy the solid brass ones, e.g.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JHJVUT0