easily disassembled into its component parts

Checking back through this thread, I realise I failed to rise to this usage earlier, TEd. It has been the subject of intense debate in my family - my dad hates it with a passion, saying what's wrong with dismantle?! I defend it on the grounds as having a more subtle meaning than dismantle - it suggests to me this very sense of reduction to component form which implies the object's 're-mantling' at some stage. And since mantle as a positive verbal construct seems to have fallen off the table, I like the extra distinction this usage allows. However, it still leaves me with the nagging doubt of the pedant - am I sticking with a word out of misguided finesse, which most others are using with blunt imprecision. So I am reassured to find it in use here - not misguidedly I hope?