You are the second person this week who have experienced very low yields and said about dewaxing? How are you dewaxing? Winterizing in ethanol? Just trying to see if your method and other posters are same.
I would strongly recomme nnsylvania d the pulsar vortex wax pen. It is the coil setup but has a funnel shaped piece you put oil in as coil heats up drips wax onto coil. I love it ive had many different pens this is closest thing ive found to dabs
Moonshine works very well. If you know the person making it you get get it at 195 proof. Works great with real corn moonshine. I never used the sugar based moonshine tho.
For your first attempt that looks good. Now keep going making small tweeks along the way. Then once YOU are happy with the end product make it that way all the time. Lots of trial and error
That seems like a very steep loss. I winterize with ethanol and do not have near a 50% loss. 9grams bho in usually ends up between 7.8-8.1 grams shatter out.