Not sure if anyone has come into this issue.
For those that are buying your pipes online, mine came in with stickers all over them. I used brake-clean and a scraper to get the stickers off. Then I gave them a good wipe down with a rag with brake-clean. This got all of the surface stickiness off. Finally, I coated them in a coat of Johnson’s paste wax like I do my cast iron tops on my tools.