Not sure about the smell you are experiencing, but why are you positioning the tank selector in the middle?
If it is an auto-change over system, point the selector to one tank or another. When that tank is empty, the red indicator will pop-up and the reg will automatically switch over to the other (full tank) and your gas appliances will keep running.
Now you can switch the selector to the full tank and have the empty tank refilled.
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