adjective. Given to stopping and refusing to go on.

adjective. Difficult to operate or start.

Given to balking; apt to stop abruptly and obstinately refuse to move: as, a balky horse.

adjective. Apt to balk.

adjective. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.

adjective. stopping short and refusing to go on

"Williams also recalled a balky computer system that routinely displayed nothing but a blue screen and a system to removed gases from the rig's drilling shack that had been in a bypass mode for five years."

intractable  

Milwaukee  gawky  stalky  talkie  talky  

cut-down  dynamo-electric  flea-bitten  gas-powered  gun-metal  

restiff  restive  

balkier  balkiest